The US government is compiling dossiers on regular travellers, including the contents of their luggage. An investigative tool, the Department of Homeland Security calls it. I am, regrettably, a regular traveller to that nest of Islamists, Britain. In the interests of full disclosure, let me list some of the items I invariably travel with, so …
“Liberals and conservatives not only have different views of the world – their brains process information differently,” reports The Week (September 28th, 2007). In a scientific study New York psychologist David Amodio, reporting in Scientific American, showed in brain scans that liberals showed more activity in the anterior cingulated cortex, an area of the brain …
Yesterday, finishing off repair work in the bathroom, I spent at least ten minutes looking for the screwdriver I had been using. I searched high and low, and recruited my wife to help me look. It seemed to have vanished. Then I looked again. It had been in my left hand all the time. Now …
Do the following rate as torture? Sleep deprivation, being kept in a cell in extremely low temperatures, being made to stand up with your hands tied to the ceiling, being slapped around the head, water-boarding, extra-bright lights and blaring “music” all day and all night? Is it o.k if we do it, but not if …
Google for Epicureans and you find a host of websites talking about food and over-indulgence. You can’t blame the people – they have been brain-washed by centuries of propaganda. Epicureanism means living simply and prudently, with self-control and moderation. It means seeking simple pleasures, those that satisfy natural and necessary desires, chief of which are …
