Agricultural societies have the unique ability to arbitrarily raise their food supply, simply by intensifying their cultivation. By bringing more land under cultivation, or by cultivating what land they have more intensively, or by the occasional technological innovation, agriculturalists can increase their output. By raising the food supply, agriculturalists can arbitrarily raise their population. Thus [...]
Today is the 200th anniversary of the abolition of slavery but somehow there seems to be something wrong with the focus of this “celebration”. Shouldn’t it be a day when the British could hold their head up with pride in the knowledge that we were the first major world power in the history of humanity [...]
In case you are getting depressed over climate change I thought I might mention that there is a glimmer of hope in the shape of Dublin based technology company Steorn that claims to have developed a perpetual motion machine using a configuration of magnetic motors which runs with an efficiency of more than 100%. Thus [...]
Well the debate is raging over the C4 film “The Global Warming Swindle” and for the most part the program and the climate deniers are losing, big-time. You see this sort of program does have its value if it helps iron out a few kinks in the way that science is presented to the public [...]
First of all I’d like to make it clear that I am in no way attempting a rebuttal of this program, I have my criticisms but I also have my criticisms of the Global warming/Climate change movement too. Not necessarily because I think their conclusions are wrong but because I think the reasoning they used [...]
Poor old Patrick Mercer seems to have been selected this time for slaughter on the shrine of the politically correct race relations god whilst the news agencies dance around in the flickering firelight howling for his blood like crazed pagan savages. Its the new inquisition and I’m sure I’m not alone in getting very tired [...]
Whenever Helena plans one of her seafood paella nights we have little problem finding guests, the merest mention of the dish and our friends don’t respond with “let me check my diary” but with “when?”. It takes quite a while to prepare so she always makes extra so the two of us can have some [...]
