Is morality relative, or legitimately the subject of majority opinion? This rather-too-short piece about the teaching of morality in schools raises many more questions than it answers, but is food for thought.
Here is an interesting and well-written piece about a type aircraft that fought in the Battle of Britain, that was fitted with a rotating turret. What I love most about the description is the 1938 memo:
The speed of modern bombers is so great that it is only worthwhile to attack them under conditions which allow [...]
Just a quick pointer to some new research into smuggling in the eighteenth century. See the Scientific American’s summary.
A piece well worth reading on the problems facing Oxbridge. When it comes to admissions, Oxford can’t avoid criticism. This piece is one of the first intelligent analyses of the problem I have seen in a national newspaper for some time. More like this, please.
There’s nothing like ‘a bit of fun and awareness raising’, as this venture to promote awareness of women in IT roles was styled, to prove that firstly to prove that puritanism is alive and well in the western world, and secondly that its objections are entirely arbitrary. Whether or not such a calendar should [...]
Unlike many comedians and satirists, Bremner has often impressed me with the depth of his research and understanding of the issues about which he talks. His Between Iraq and a Hard Place (IMDB entry here), despite the fact that it was produced by three comedians, and whether or not one agrees with its anti-war [...]
The Register is reporting that Sir Andrew Leggatt, who regulates the use of covert surveillance in the UK has raised a concern that the police use of cameras build a “24×7″ database of all vehicle movements in the UK may in fact breech the Regulation of Investigative Powers Act. His solution, as the man [...]
HP has developed a memory chip that can communicate wirelessly. I was trying to think of a good use for this, and it occurred to me that every manufacturer of key-logging hardware is going to look hard at it.
Every year the press run a story about who has been “left in charge” while the PM takes a summer holiday. Of course, its barely a story – tolerated by Downing Street, one suspects, because it distracts attention from the fact that the Prime Minister is actually taking a holiday – since in this [...]
The BBC is reporting that a key painkiller is in short supply. My initial thought was that maybe the NHS had been keeping too tight a grip on its stocks, but the limiting factor seems to be manufacturing capacity.