Galileo warned the catholic church that if they insisted that the sun went around the Earth and evidence irrefutably proved the Earth went around the sun it was the catholic church that would end up looking stupid. No matter the power they had to limit the dissemination of his proofs and over his own life,…
The Old Man Of The Sea
The old man of the sea is an ancient Eastern story that has many versions but the simplest of all goes something like this. There is a young sailor walking the cliff paths who happens upon an old beggar sitting by the path, wizened and small, who asks the sailor if he would give him…
Retirement
It is little wonder the population think they have limited power when they work for forty years towards one goal only to have the money they set aside and the goal move due to circumstance and government. One wonders what the governments were doing with all the money their populations were earning for decades that…
One Step Forward We All Fall Down
I have been following (it seems for most of my life) the paroxysms of the Conservative Party over Europe. Stemming as they do from men and women who live in history, the ineluctable arguments to leave the European Union bubble up through the ranks on a regular basis, spewing out on the floor of the…
Walter Savage Landor
Rose Aylmer AH, what avails the sceptred race! Ah, what the form divine! What every virtue, every grace! Rose Aylmer, all were thine. Rose Aylmer, whom these wakeful eyes May weep, but never see, A night of memories and sighs I consecrate to thee.
Nothing Is Free
I mean this is the Physics of things that everything takes energy. I have dealt elsewhere on my thoughts about money and the nonsense of the financial system in human affairs. But I am fascinated by physical systems and how one thing feeds off another, a law that has worked its way into the realms…
Digital Marketing
The greatest challenge in today’s digital publishing world is pretty much the same challenge that faced publishers since printing was invented in China; how do you tell people your book is available? The art of marketing is simply the art of getting a message out to as many people as you are able, the art…
Melody and Movement
I was wondering about the life of pirates in the classical pirate period (there have always been pirates and there are still many today) when they all hanged out in Jamaica. The typical screen rendition is of either a wronged man seeking revenge or a lovable rogue who kills the really rotten pirate. The derivation…
Overlooking Insects
Without insects all life on Earth would cease to function within weeks, if not sooner. Quite apart from the fact they are an integral part of the food chain and the smaller animals that live on them are predated by others right the way up the line, they perform numerous pollinations vital to the ability…
The Cherished Argument
I was watching some you tube videos on the reasons some people give to disbelieve there is a god. Having studied proofs for gods existence at university and, at that time, agreeing with Kant that such proofs are either easy to refute or so abstruse as to be virtually incomprehensible to reason, I have always…