like to list different things on my blog so this week I have the irrepressible Slavoj Zizek at the LSE talking about First as Tragedy, Then as Farce: The Double Death of Neoliberalism and the Idea of … more →
Molivam42's Weblogmolivam42 wrote 2 days ago: like to list different things on my blog so this week I have the irrepressible Slavoj Zizek at the L … more →
molivam42 wrote 1 week ago: The Daily Mail had a piece about exam howlers from a new book by humorist Richard Benson. Examples i … more →
molivam42 wrote 2 weeks ago: Italian novelist and semiotician Umberto Eco, who is curating a new exhibition at the Louvre in Pari … more →
molivam42 wrote 3 weeks ago: In The Times Ben Macintyre argues that narratives are disappearing in an online blizzard of tiny by … more →
molivam42 wrote 1 month ago: Lingist John McWhorter asks would it be inherently evil if there were not 6,000 spoken languages, bu … more →
molivam42 wrote 1 month ago: Boston.com has an article Let us now praise… the cliché – It’s concise, time-tested, and … more →
molivam42 wrote 1 month ago: Better regulation is not the panacea for all our problems as John Kay shows in How the skies proved … more →
molivam42 wrote 1 month ago: Gary Stern, former President of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank, talks with EconTalk host Russ … more →
molivam42 wrote 1 month ago: A while back I did a piece about metaphors. This article deals with many of the same themes: Thinkin … more →
molivam42 wrote 2 months ago: Salon.com has a piece, Is the Internet melting our brains?, about moral panics created over new comm … more →
molivam42 wrote 2 months ago: We have all heard of Christian funamentalism but this week The New Humanist has a featur … more →
molivam42 wrote 5 months ago: I have done a couple of posts about thought experiments and in this week’s Analysis Janet Radcliffe … more →
molivam42 wrote 5 months ago: The Independent had a piece about the ten most ridiculous lawsuits of all time. John Kay looks at … more →
molivam42 wrote 5 months ago: Riccardo Rebonato of the Royal Bank of Scotland and author of Plight of the Fortune Tellers talks wi … more →
molivam42 wrote 5 months ago: ABC’S By Design meets Hervé This, one of the two men who coined the term “molecular gastronomy.” Thi … more →
molivam42 wrote 6 months ago: Private Eye’s Ian Hislop analyses Henry VIII has been depicted down the years from the Holbein port … more →
molivam42 wrote 6 months ago: NPR has a feature on the science of spirituality. More than half of adult Americans report they have … more →
molivam42 wrote 6 months ago: Bruce Schneier believes that it is not so easy for terrorists to attack our food supply: We Shouldn … more →
molivam42 wrote 6 months ago: Last November I did a piece about conspiracies, Just because you are paranoid. So I was interested i … more →