Saturday, 26 September 2020

Life in the Pandemic XII: What lies ahead?

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No human being can tell the future. Lot’s of us try to guess the future, and claim that we’re making a prediction. If enough of us do that ...
Saturday, 19 September 2020

Life in the Pandemic XI: Why science can never be enough.

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In the interests of transparency, I should make clear from the outset that I think science is, without doubt, the best way of obtaining soun...
Saturday, 15 August 2020

Life in the Pandemic X: Exacerbating uncertainty

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 Many things in life are uncertain (apart from death and taxes obviously). And many things are uncertain in science. Indeed identifying, con...
Thursday, 23 July 2020

Life in the Pandemic IX: Non-convention(al) Keswick

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Keswick without the convention, isn’t quite like Anfield or old Trafford without the fans, but there are similarities. The buzz of coming to...
Thursday, 16 July 2020

Life in the Pandemic VIII: So many goodbyes….

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There are many folk who are grieving these days and having to say their goodbyes. While some probably knew the time was approaching when an ...
Saturday, 4 July 2020

Life in the Pandemic VII: Don’t panic, there’s still plenty of books to read…

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Frank Zappa is quoted as having said “So many books, so little time”. But of course, for a while now, many of us have had considerably more ...
Wednesday, 24 June 2020

Life in the Pandemic VI: Bigging up science - but a bit too much?

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You may not have heard of Jennifer Doudna. But then there was a time when no one had heard of Charles Darwin or Albert Einstein. And of cour...