“The vast majority of the so-called research turned out in US universities is essentially worthless”, says Page Smith, a history professor at the University of California. “It does not result in any measurable benefit to anything or anybody…….It is busywork on a vast, almost incomprehensible scale”. The number of journal articles published has climbed from …
Eating a wholegrain-rich diet can slash a person’s risk of premature death, a new Harvard University study has found. Researchers analysed data from 12 studies involving nearly 800,000 people – and found that people who ate the highest volume of wholegrain foods (three portions per day, or 48g in total) had a 20% lower risk …
Both the atomist and the stoic traditions were eclipsed by a very different conception of God, the Christian god, an unchanging intelligence just like us, but without our frailties, an all-powerful Father, presiding over a singular cosmos. How did this happen? Plato insisted on a creator-god who made only one universe. Aristotle also favoured a …
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Infrastructure was once at the heart of American public policy. Works such as the Los Angeles Aqueduct, Hoover Dam, and the Interstate Highway System transformed the economy. Today, the US spends significantly less, as a share of G.D.P., on infrastructure than it did fifty years ago. The Washington Metro is in such a state that …
The text below is to be found on Wikipedia and concerns the sovereignty of Parliament. It is important because it could be true that a vote in both houses of Parliament could constitutionally overturn Brexit. I am no lawyer, let alone a constitutional lawyer, but it would seem that only Parliament created and passed the …
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