Knox Box

Not quite a science blog, not quite a Bible blog, not quite a politics or family blog. Just a box into which almost anything might be thrown. Worth a rummage in. See the labels cloud on the right for an idea of what you might find.

Monday, 27 February 2023

Tolerance and the public square…

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I confess I’m not really sure what is meant these days by “the public square”. There probably isn’t just one, and it probably isn’t a physic...

Friday, 17 February 2023

A “Kennedy moment” in Scotland

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I was on a train from Glasgow to Edinburgh last Wednesday, and had just logged on to the in-train Wi-Fi, when the news broke. Nicola Sturgeo...

Saturday, 28 January 2023

Remembering not to forget

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Last night, at the close of Holocaust Memorial Day in the UK, I watched the film “Denial” again – it’s currently available on the BBC I-Pla...

Wednesday, 18 January 2023

Starting in weakness…..

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There is something arbitrary about identifying 1 st January every year as holding some significance, and yet we do (at least in this part o...

Friday, 23 December 2022

It’s Christmas on Sunday…….

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You wouldn’t think it was that big a deal that December 25 th happens to be a Sunday. And for most of the planet’s 8 billion inhabitants it...

Monday, 19 December 2022

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The Christmas movie channels popped up, unbidden, in September. TV adverts for Christmas food started in early October, and the John Lewis a...

Thursday, 1 December 2022

(Way) less than less than half….

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No, the title is not a typo. It was inspired by the headline on a report on the BBC website last Tuesday, which also appeared in their mai...

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Paul C. Knox: I'm a Christian, in the Biblical as opposed to the ethnic or generic sense, retired academic scientist, and recently minted theology graduate. The way science and faith interact is of interest to me. You can find our more about my science on my web pages. But here I range far and wide.

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