Most children learn to lie around the age of four. More intelligent children learn about lying around the age of three. These first lies are usually very obvious to parents, and are mostly altruistic. As the child ages the lies develop and so does the face, with that typical ‘face’ that parents know so well…
Why Do We Lie
So many reasons so few worthy of us. But maybe they are all worthy of us because this is our nature. To lie to cover up our true intentions; our embarrassment; our mistakes; purposely to mislead; to make money; to keep lovers; to maintain others’ views of us; to protect someone else. Lies are our…
The Software Is There
. . . if you have the will to use it. Having spent a day, less than two weeks before publication, completely changing how the software deals with the typography of A Brief History Of Lies but aiming for same finished result, pressure of time and getting it right coalesce. This is the point where…
The New Frontier
I have often thought that the search for knowledge should not just be an International effort based at NASA, but truly International with every country paying what it can for access to the knowledge and everyone sharing all the information. Not that that would ever happen because some knowledge would contain properties that different countries…
So Much News
I sometimes wonder whether it is all news or if we spend a lot of time looking at our navels. Of all the things to bring to the attention of the public a lot of news is going over things the public already know and telling us when someone has died. The news and death…
We Do Not See
Ourselves in others. We do not hear our voices in others. We do not see ourselves in the actions of others. We do not see ourselves as another colour, another culture, another person. We do not see our natures in other animals. We do not see our movements in other bodies. We do not see…
Age
They tell me the World of life, starting with the Achaean Period, is about four and half million years old. When I studied Ancient History which had the traditional syllabus of Greek history broadly across the fifth century BCE (496 – 404) and the Roman Period of 122 BCE to 14AD there were some thinkers,…
Music
Listening to Albinoni ,The Complete Concertos from a Phillips release in 1997. Having spent way too long listening to Simon Rattle’s Beethoven Symphonies. It is strange but my work is not as good as it otherwise is if I write when music is playing. I tend to get up and start conducting and get carried…
Fresh Air
After days of trying to get the images into pdf to read at 300dpi, as they were scanned, and not as 150dpi as they arrive in America, I thought the morning walk would clear my head a bit. It was very windy this morning, the ground was wet from overnight rain, the fields sinking in…
Friends
There is something in the voice. The link with memory and shared experience. The moments of laughter, sadness, the inbuilt strength of knowing how someone else thinks, how they act, recognizing their walk from the far end of the street. In the mass of strangers all of whom are friends to someone, this person is…