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John Weever and Shakespeare
Many years ago I bought a book published in 1998 by E. A. J. Honigmann, Professor of English Literature at Newcastle University. His theory was that Shakespeare lived and worked in Lancashire before moving to London. The book title was Shakespeare – the ‘lost years’. I had been very surprised on flicking through it in…
What is ideology?
Ideology is an attempt to make the external universe conform to ideas about how it ought to be. It has a superficial similarity to science in that it involves the construction of cognitive models to achieve its ends. Science however is an attempt to understand the universe as it is in the knowledge that the…
It all comes round again. A holistic approach to water, carbon and other natural cycles.
Sir James Bevan, CEO of the UK Environment Agency is reported as saying that we need to be less squeamish about water recycled from sewage. He also wrote that people need to “change the way that they think about water” and “treat it as a precious resource, not a free good”. He’s right of course…
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