Eden and Ithaca
At the start of 2020, I read Genesis more closely for the first time (I wrote a memorandum of what I found) and completed my reading of Robert Fitzgera...
Category: Ideas
Panpsychism
A review of Philip Goff’s book Galileo’s Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness
Bezos in Space
A dream of space Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon, is spending a billion dollars each year on a project to bring thousands of people into space ...
Nutraceuticals
Paul Noth, New Yorker magazine
Evaluation of a “Critical Mass” agreement on agriculture
The stalemate in Geneva on the December 2013 Bali Agreement concerning both Trade Faciliation and agriculture subsidies has revived some interest ...
They never talk about trade
The trade and investment policies of the two main political parties in Australia have flip-flopped in chorus over the years so they hardly ever figure ...
Governed by the gutless?
Alan Beattie’s new booklet “Who’s in Charge Here” (Amazon) is an amusing, accurate, accessible account of the current mess in global financial and tra...