Something that bugs the hell out of me, literally, is the misuse of English. Of course, I was trained as a subeditor in the days…
Published 26 May 2014
Begging that damned question
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Category: Humor
Published 30 Dec 2013
How to review books, quickly and informatively
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Published 14 Feb 2013
Yeah, I’m teaching too
Published 5 Feb 2013
Tractatus Logico-Chocolatus
1. The world is all that is the taste. 1.1 The world is the totality of flavours, not things. 1.1.1 The world is determined by…
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Published 19 Jan 2013
Chocolate history
Reader Jeb McLeish has brought to my attention an early attempt to do the metaphysics of chocolate: The Natural History of Chocolate by D. de Quelus (1730):…
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Published 11 Dec 2012
Evolution quotes: The English and theories
‘What I really like about the English is that they don’t have theories. No Englishman would ever have said, “I think, therefore I am.” Although…
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Published 8 Nov 2012
Evolution quotes: On human nature and doubt
That Pyrot had stolen the eighty thousand trusses of hay nobody hesitated for a moment to believe. No one doubted because the general ignorance in…
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Published 26 Oct 2012
Metaphysics, a poem
It rains. It rains here and now. It rains on the possible fat men in that doorway. It rains in the desert. It rains in…
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Published 11 Oct 2012
Chocolate causes Nobel Laureates
My research associate, Dr Malte Ebach, has brought to my attention an inadvertent proof of the truth of chocoholism. The New England Journal of Medicine,…
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Published 28 Sep 2012
