of Sapiens
As featured in the Observer, Sunday 8 November 2020
Tag: science
‘The scientific attitude’
This is an old review of an old book. I find that I am not well enough versed to understand the full context and that I struggle with some of … Continue reading ‘The scientific attitude’
Let me share this story one day
artist backwards [I was young] I walked into science. My Granny loved to tell how I could sleep whilst still standing: an ability that I lost before my Granny died. … Continue reading Let me share this story one day
Behind the graph
For my birthday, my son Andrew gave me the book ‘Scientific Babel’ by Michael D. Gordin. Here are a few extracts:
Valid to – Valid from
Validation a word, that like all words cannot understand itself.
The changing production system of scientific knowledge
An extract from “Genes, Cells and Brains” by Hilary & Steven Rose