As we know, philosophically, if a tree falls in the woods and it falls on the only person who was there to hear it, the tree wouldn’t have made a noise when it killed them – presumably because it would be trying to sneak up on the blighter. Or something. Welcome to the wonderful world [...]
Archive for January, 2008
The Perception Question
Posted in Articles, Free Will on January 10, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Free Range
Posted in Articles on January 9, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Why do we need to ban factory-farmed chickens? Jamie Oliver and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall have both been on TV recently explaining that battery farming techniques are terrible and people should stop buying food farmed in such conditions. Fair enough – I only ever buy Free Range. Certainly Jamie has been calling for a ban. A ban [...]
A very modern dilemma
Posted in Articles on January 8, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Katherine sent me a text message the other day. Nothing that surprising in that – I suppose. But we were in the same house, and she was asking me if I wanted a cup of coffee. Now when I was brought up, I was always told that I was not supposed to shout up the [...]
I told you I was ill
Posted in Articles on January 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
It’s very difficult to have a truly objective awareness of how ill you are. As a thinking modern man, I know all too well that woman consider most men to only really get “man ‘flu”. The problem is that moaning is very much a male characteristic – although I know men who would never moan [...]
