Live while you are alive
In England a group of academics are campaigning for school children to address their teachers by their first names. According to them, calling men “Sir” and women “Miss” are depressing examples of how women are given a lower status than men. “Sir is a knight and Miss doesn’t match “Sir” at all”(!). Oh, dear! How …
Now researchers at Johns Hopkins tell us that, after all, the resveritrol in red wine, and dark chocolate, do nothing whatsoever to ward off heart disease or cancer! I wish they would make up their minds. All I can say is that red wine and dark chocolate do me a world of good, and if …
At 94, James Lovelock is surprisingly optimistic about the future of the human race. The scientist and author – most famous for being the father of “Gaia theory” – believes that, although environmental disasters could reduce the human population to a few thousand individuals, there’s really no need to panic. “We shouldn’t worry too much …
In the May 2nd issue of the Guardian Weekly a regular contributor, Oliver Burkeman, says that people are not motivated by the truth, but by people and facts that are “interesting”. A theorist, writer, politician, he says, is considered great, not because what he says is right and true, but because it is “interesting”. Interestingness …
“Ah! How mankind comes to nothing, and yet they live as though life will never end! They all pass away like a shadow…….for all is vanity. Oh Lord, what is there to hope for? (Psalm 39: 4-7) Religion promises us everlasting life, with angels and a god who looks like us. I do think that …
