one's own Brain

When, in the 1760s, the Earl of Hardwicke attempted to commission Gainsborough to paint a view for him, the artist replied: Mr Gainsborough ...

ppv v fp

When asked about the accuracy of a mammogram, doctors cite the "false positive rate". Ignore the false positive rate, what patient...

no taxation w/o representation

Unbelievably depressed by UK election results. I really thought the Liberal Democrats could pull it off this time - get a number of seats t...

There are revealingly few references to Baudelaire in the Journal, the most telling of which seems at first sight prosaic, indeed calm: ...

AAA

Imagine a school with three teachers. But this isn't a public school. It's a private school testing out an innovative new funding sy...

in remembrance of crayolas past

Results of xkcd colour survey are out By a strange coincidence, the same night I first made the color survey public, the webcomic Doghouse D...

Britain deserves the best

Esche stated the case clearly it in an earlier meeting: ‘Reputation has no financial value in this university.’ That isn’t necessarily true ...