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A Numerate Life by John Allen Paulos

Paul Taylor -
Prometheus, ISBN 1633881180 As an avid reader of Paulos's books since the 1990s - such as Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences, and Beyond Numeracy:...
Society

Constructing Knowledge

Wendy M. Grossman -
I first learned to be a skeptic in high school. Pause. Modify. I think I was always naturally a skeptic - or, as my...
Society

Do lawbots dream of electric briefs?

Geoff Whelan -
Summer holidays are a great excuse to dodge deadlines and this year was no exception. When I should have been penning this column I...
Society

Spreading Fake News

Chris French -
J K ROWLING RECENTLY apologised for a tweet in which she had criticised Donald Trump for apparently deliberately ignoring a disabled child’s attempts to...
Society

RIP Hitch

Deborah Hyde -
Anthony Burns ruminates on Hitch’s persistent preoccupations, and wonders aloud about that supposed move from left to right “For a lot of people, their first...
Cryptozoology

Can You Catch Morgellons from the Internet?

Deborah Hyde -
Natasha Byrne investigates the role of a very modern medium in the proliferation of a very modern condition It’s enough to make your skin crawl:...
Society

Behaving Like Animals

Deborah Hyde -
  Tessa Kendall looks at primatologist Frans de Waal’s work to muse upon the origin of our better natures Is human nature a beast that needs...
Society

I Swear by Almighty God

Deborah Hyde -
A LITTLE OVER TWO YEARS AGO I was invited to be part of a radio show discussing proposals that the oath taken in the...
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