Wednesday, July 22, 2020

Mosquitoes, chicken wire, COVID-19 and masks

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Is wearing a mask to stop the spread of COVID-19 really pointless? Let's take a look at one of the objections in detail. By now you'...
Sunday, June 07, 2020

If you could make all 7.5 billion people on Earth sit down and read a book of your choosing, what book do you choose and why?

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First give me time to write it. It would be an optimistic book. One which points out what’s wrong with the world today but which suggests ho...
Monday, May 18, 2020

A bang or a whimper?

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The last sound - Huh? Is the world going to end with a bang - or with a whimper? What about that bit in Revelations - The last trump? T...
Sunday, March 01, 2020

How humans and computers follow instructions

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Years ago, when I taught Information technology, I used two stories to explain the difference between how computers and people followed...
Wednesday, February 19, 2020

A viral post (and how to protect yourself)

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Do you understand how viruses spread? Knowing this can help safeguard your health. That's particularly important if you want to minim...
Wednesday, November 20, 2019

How Jeremy Corbyn should make his position on Brexit clear.

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Jeremy Corbyn refused nine times to be drawn on his position on Brexit and was much taunted by it in the election debate. This is how I thin...
Tuesday, November 19, 2019

There's no such thing as democracy when it comes to Brexit

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In 2016 the UK held a referendum on whether to leave the European Community. The Prime Minister at the time, David Cameron, committed the UK...
Monday, August 26, 2019

Solve these moral dilemmas

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I answer questions on Quora . One of the items I frequently see there is from theists who ask how an atheist can be moral without believing ...
Sunday, August 18, 2019

How to fix Microsoft's new blurred lockscreen 'feature'.

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Which background image do you prefer to see? Blurred or sharp? Microsoft has now added an 'acrylic blur' effect to the backgroun...
Tuesday, August 06, 2019

The Last of the Innocents - Life before computers and Internet

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People born in the mid-to-late 1970s are the last generation of humans on the planet to have grown up without the internet. Social scientist...
Saturday, October 27, 2018

The future of computers and AI - Conductive polymer matrix for AI (CPMAI)

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The problem with existing computers is that they constantly develop. For most users by the time they have saved up to buy the latest compu...
Tuesday, October 16, 2018

The Amazon Alphabet

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Have you ever done an incognito search at Amazon? Did you notice that as soon as you start typing in the search box, Amazon starts making ...
Wednesday, September 05, 2018

Paradoxical?

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88 mph? The classic time travel paradox is to wonder what would happen if you traveled back in time and killed your grandfather before y...