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There has been greater concentration on the Medieval Middle Eastern and Central Asian Science but so far insufficient exploration of its roots and what it owes or does not owe to Islam. Few, if...
19 September 2020 1,280 4 View
The world has been locked in fear a long time. Does this demonstrate we have forgotten how to die and that even letting go of our elderly is too hard a task? Should we accept nature's desire for...
11 August 2020 974 14 View
For creative writers only. I had a student who although published abroad could not get published in the UK. Although her detective novel was published, she was told by a male agent that only male...
06 July 2020 2,041 41 View
If a new route is taken by foot, the first time someone walks the route it seems to take forever, the second time it seems shorter in terms of time, the third shorter still. This may not work if...
30 June 2020 5,892 6 View
Does it matter if Picasso was driven by destructive maschismo in his relationships, Oscar Wilde employed rent boys, Einstein was promiscuous (maybe) when heralding their different achievements?...
08 April 2020 1,518 6 View
The Indo-European languages are, in the classical model, supposed to have spread into India, the Middle East and Europe from parts of Central Asia producing many of the modern languages in those...
20 July 2018 4,372 8 View
We are as much part of the planet's ecosystem as the animals we strive to protect or eliminate. Many are dependent on our existence. In our rotting cities which animals would survive and multiply,...
08 July 2018 9,902 73 View
Academic training is lengthy but often resolves into specific ways to present knowledge and information. This requires ability but does it require great ability. When I did my first degree I...
07 July 2018 8,440 13 View
Serotonin is a hormone. The chemical name is 5-hydroxytryptamine and it is a monooamine neurotransmitter Biochemically, serotonin is derived from tryptophan a primary amino acid, and is a...
05 April 2018 9,180 15 View
Many teachers merely teach the curriculum possessing no outside knowledge of the subject. As they rarely research they don't need to perhaps, but does that mean that they are therefore...
24 March 2018 5,458 72 View
Mary, the mother of Jesus, hardly figures in the Gospels but takes a greater presence in the Qur'an. They do not resemble one another, nor play similar roles (Maryam occupies a symbolic role not...
26 February 2018 335 12 View
Britain has in the past 80 years produced a number of myths that confirm its identity, what it likes and projects/projected about itself. Many come from the 2nd World War: resilience against...
13 February 2018 2,912 22 View
What will cryptocurrencies do for economies as they are not attached to governments or banks but will largely be subject to internet demand and flow? Will they create greater wealth-if only for...
06 February 2018 2,336 3 View
Few leaders act ethically, but act according to political necessity. Is that necessarily wrong except when leaders are actively corrupt or pursue violent ends? Isn't it important for leaders to...
27 January 2018 9,109 43 View
In many ways, writing a novel, creating art, and scientific discovery seem to require different faculties, although clearly some attributes must be the same. In terms of intelligence (most IQ...
05 January 2018 1,856 7 View
As an occasional teacher of classical, early modern and modern literature I am curious about the merits of literary canon. I often read work on internet sites, for example, that bears comparison...
24 October 2017 5,677 20 View
This example attached below was made between 11000 and 12000 BCE in present day Colombia and is a greater achievement than European efforts found so far. It is 8 miles long. So can this qualify...
01 January 1970 4,850 2 View
https://www.livescience.com/simulating-early-universe-inflation.html?utm_source=notification If Time is immense and how we now experience Time is no more than a flicker of light in a massive...
01 January 1970 5,805 33 View
Hitler had ordinary relationships with a number of people contrary to myth, as did Stalin. The historian, Ellie Cawthorne, points out he was politically psychopathic but there is no evidence he...
01 January 1970 1,955 6 View
Today, I have marked psychology papers, negotiated future freelance work, posted a poem, and written the first three pages of an essay. And you?
01 January 1970 8,733 13 View
Everything I publish here is published elsewhere and of course the impact is variable. What about your work?
01 January 1970 3,136 1 View
At the beginning of the Republic Socrates pontificates on knowledge using Thrasymachus as a foil. I thought Thrasymachus' ideas were better. I thought Socrates' use of doctors and ship captains as...
01 January 1970 9,620 13 View
Why in a relationship does one partner abuse another, physically or mentally? Or each abuse the other? Finding someone in a world of violence and negativity (not always) should create...
01 January 1970 3,657 10 View
Although the modern view connects suicide with depression it is only one, probably minor reason. What other reasons could there be: social, political, relationship based in one form or another?
01 January 1970 1,688 21 View
We claim ideas as if they were our own, but is it possible they belong to another class, another generation? Can you impose critical thinking on your own ideas?
01 January 1970 5,478 37 View
Brexit in the UK was the result of a poorly judged referendum being called that was accepted as part of the democratic process. Since then the legislature has made every attempt, sometimes...
01 January 1970 1,148 34 View
The bigger the lie the more it is believed. I suggest, those who embrace propaganda need to believe it as it fits an underlying reality, which, although false, underpins their lives. National...
01 January 1970 8,270 98 View
The term good/bad writer can easily be dismissed as many indifferent writers have interesting things to say. But the anonymity of writers later heralded is a given (or perhaps a literary myth?)....
01 January 1970 9,456 6 View
Decades ago under Margaret Thatcher the UK government took money off the very poor, those on benefits, in order to release the wealthy or well to do from excessive taxation. This gave the...
01 January 1970 8,088 15 View
Sergei Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister, has asserted that: 'The West has lost its monopoly over the globalisation process.' Have the liberal values of Western civilisation lost their power and...
01 January 1970 7,396 9 View
What are the causes of crime, and how can criminal behaviour be satisfactorily defined? Association theory: learned through the environment Atavistic theory Biology
01 January 1970 1,115 15 View
This has come to my notice recently, but it is something I was aware might be happening. Here you will find a message to me from --------- regarding Sergey Klyvov reporting that he 'likes to...
01 January 1970 4,877 3 View
One of these leaders is from South Africa, which recently sent weapons to Russia. Are their intentions clear?
01 January 1970 2,402 5 View
On the surface this looks like an unelected body of EU administrators interfering with an elected government. Will the EU turn into a large autocratic superpower? Should we be concerned?
01 January 1970 6,221 4 View
Below is a trawl through the ethnic identity through the ages of the UK. Some scientists hold it is probably even more varied as to type and skin...
01 January 1970 9,926 0 View
The USA, Russia and China all interfere or have interfered with smaller states: USA in the Americas and Far East: Russia in Europe and Middle East: China on an economic and technical fashion and...
01 January 1970 3,975 10 View
