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It Ain’t About the Money, It’s About the Fun!
I call it a business. And to be fair, it does have things for sale. All sorts of goodies. Bright, shiny things. Colourful things. Things...
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Why I Don’t Evangelise My Atheism
I’ve got this song. I think it’s the best thing I’ve ever written. Yeah, yeah, I know I always say that. But this time it’s true. It’s...
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The Trouble with Being Good at Arguing
It is the ideas with the most bombastic champions that are most likely to be heard and, therefore, gain traction.
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The Fallacy of the Infinite Monkey Cage
Let’s take one of them, give him one of the typewriters and sit him down somewhere nice and quiet, so he can concentrate.
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Why I Still Go Busking
Just as well I don’t do it for the money. I do it for the occasional person who really seems to get it.
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What Makes a Great Eurovision Song?
But what separates the truly great from the merely good? Here are ten features that contribute to a stellar Eurovision entry...
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Ten Reasons Why the House Always Wins
At the heart of every gamble lies the notion of prediction. Or rather: the illusion of it.
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All You Need is…well, Respect Actually
John Lennon, bless his cotton socks, was wrong. Love isn’t all we need. Not collectively anyway.
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Why Don’t More Local Businesses Advertise Locally?
If you have a business offering high-quality products and services at fair prices – and your customers know this – they will come running.
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The Mathematics of Reactionless Drives
As the collision system is enclosed and the overall momentum has changed: the force has behaved identically to an external force.
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Is Geoengineering the Answer to Global Warming?
Coverage of geoengineering has been consistently more limited than of the carbon reduction narrative that most of us are familiar with.
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The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
Since acquiring its first site in 1930, the charity now has over 170 nature reserves, spread across the length and breadth of the UK.
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What’s Stopping More of us From Moving Abroad?
Is it the lure of a better life? The sun, sea, sand, sangria…skiing? Or the often quoted statistics on standard of living?
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Why Artificial Intelligence Can Never Replace Humans
Our smiles, our convulsions, our noises are just the observable entities of the ticklishness we feel inside.
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Is a Perpetual Motion Machine Really Possible? Part 1
Impressive they are; perpetual they are not. (First law of thermodynamics and all that.)
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