Prediction Contest: Summary Results
Earlier this month I ran a 2023 Prediction Contest, with participants having to say how likely they thought forty UK and world events were to occur. In this post I…
Tag: Science
2023 Prediction Contest
A prediction contest for 2023, featuring UK politics and economy, global politics and world events and science, the arts and miscellany. Read on to find out more and enter. As…
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Christmas Quiz XVII: Answers and Results
Christmas Quiz XVII answers and results are now available! As always, if you enjoy what you read here, you can sign up free to receive an email update each time…
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Raptors, Racial Profiling and Religion: Adventures with ChatGPT
Song battles for and against racial profiling, angry letters to the Daily Mail, preprepared government responses to new reports, a new parable in the style of Jesus of Nazareth and…
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Christmas Quiz XVII is now available
Christmas Quiz XVII is now available! As always, if you enjoy what you read here, you can sign up free to receive an email update each time I post by…
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No, you are not of ‘greater moral value’
I loathe the expression 'check your privilege' - it serves entirely to silence debate and foster division - but I did have an occasion yesterday when I truly understood the…
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How Identity Politics Divides Us
Those of us who oppose to identity politics often do so because we believe that it is a worldview that increases societal division, by encouraging people to divide themselves into…
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Herman Wouk – the 20th / 21st century’s greatest author
What makes a great author? Some would argue that popularity should be the key measure, with best-selling authors the clear champions of the writing world. The public is the true…
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Who would you put on the £50 Note?
The Bank of England is undertaking an exercise to ask people to nominate a scientist to go on the https://app.keysurvey.co.uk/f/1348443/10fc/ Anyone can vote and there is no shortlist (though the…
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Guest Post: Cosmos, The Infographic Book of Space
This is a guest post by Dr Chris North, astronomer and prolific commented on this blog, about his book Cosmos, The Infographic Book of Space. Over the years I've written…