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Is life after death scientifically possible?

When science and religion got divorced in the nineteenth century, they split up the family possessions in a reasonably amicable…

  • Published: August 28, 202011:11 am
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Why my Uncle Bill was Contemptible

When Germany invaded Belgium and France in August 1914, many people on both sides thought it was going to be…

  • Published: August 19, 201810:46 am
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The Wisdom of Crowds

Since the beginning of the “age of the common man” in the nineteenth century, there has been a widely held…

  • Published: April 25, 201812:00 pm
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Why SOE gave away Britain’s top war secret to the Nazis

At a crucial stage of World War II, the Special Operations Executive deliberately allowed one of its most closely guarded…

  • Published: February 8, 201810:50 am
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Why Freud is important to the future of science

Most of Freud’s ideas are considered rather old-fashioned today, but I suspect that, before we sent the old boy packing,…

  • Published: September 1, 20174:54 pm
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Lies, damned lies, and immigration figures

University College London (UCL) prides itself – rightly – on being “London’s leading multidisciplinary university, with 11000 staff, 35000 students…

  • Published: May 15, 201710:33 pm
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The limits of reason?

Everyone educated at a European or American university in the past 50 years has emerged with the tenets of Western…

  • Published: April 4, 20173:47 pm
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“Science is not a liberal conspiracy”

The title of this article is an aphorism coined by Dr. Neil de Grasse Tyson, the American astrophysicist and populariser…

  • Published: January 11, 20178:27 pm
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Perpetual Emotion?

Perpetual motion is scientifically impossible, right? The impossibility of energy for nothing is not merely a matter of habit of…

  • Published: January 6, 20176:47 pm
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Facts make weird shit less strange

In more than 40 years of investigating stories too weird for most journos to bother with, I’ve heard and seen…

  • Published: December 5, 201610:16 am
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