Vague Measurements
Who decides how long a metre is?
Who decides how long a metre is?
Professor David Blockely on the lessons he believes the wider world can learn from bridge-building.
Cahn and Carbone explore the challenges a conservative-minded youth face in an liberal-acting world.
Dennis Baron looks at Wikipedia.
An excerpt in honor of Philip Roth’s birthday.
Rom Harré on the use of living things in scientific experiments throughout history.
It is in the nature of things that sexual behaviour that does not offend agreed norms makes no special stir. Even so it may be revealing. People masturbate, woo, marry, copulate, and give birth. Of these events the law requires only that marriages and, in Shakespeare’s time, baptisms rather than births be recorded. Analysis of such records may in itself illuminate the sexual mores of the period and, indeed, of Shakespeare and his family.
Dennis Baron looks at the destabilizing technologies of communication.
John Sledge reflects on his father’s book.
Taking a look at how the ebook format compares and contrasts with various book formats throughout history.
How does Alice in Wonderland mirror our own political world?
James Hall, author of The Sinister Side, on the left-right symbolism in one of the Labour Party’s new election posters.
Elvin Lim reflects on politics and the Oscars.
Kathryn Kalinak reflects on the the 2010 Oscar “Original Score” presentations and results.
Leslie Martin looks at how we should tackle America’s obesity problem.
Gordon Thompson’s monthly music post.