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26 September, 2014

Issue 35 of Shape: The Fourth Law

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  I am reluctant to label my latest contribution “The Fourth Law of Thermodynamics”, because of the absolutely necessary context, into w...

Neanderthals: Sub or Rival Humans?

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“Neanderthal Doodles hint at Abstract Thought!” , is the subtitle of a recent piece in New Scientist (2985). But, it is an amazingly uni...
15 September, 2014

Socialists for an Independent Scotland!

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It is clear that all the pro-capitalist parties in the UK oppose Scottish Independence. It should tell socialists that these people coul...
08 September, 2014

Dialectics

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What is Dialectics? Dialectics was a discovery of Frederick Hegel – the German Idealist Philosopher, who, some 200 years ago, considere...

Following Supernovae

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What happens next? A completely non-living example of an Emergence Phoenix is, of course, the final “death” of a star in a Supernova Exp...

New Special Issue: The Phoenix

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  The poets knew it long ago, but could only describe it. Yet, profound though their accounts were, their tale certainly needed a more...
13 August, 2014

Defeat the Tory Onslaught!

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Forward to Socialism! So, what is happening now, some six years after the worldwide recession in Capitalism? How, indeed, could a ...
08 August, 2014

Democracy: Services to and Control by the People

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It is hard to disagree with the concept of the organisation of a Society for the benefit of its people – The Idea of Service. Just as it...
11 July, 2014

New Special Issue: Analogistic Models I

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An Important Breakthrough in Theoretical Science? For those who have attempted to follow (with understandable puzzlement) the extend...
10 July, 2014

Democracy and the Rule of Law

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While our scientists concern themselves with revealing the “Eternal Laws of Nature”, which “make absolutely everything what it is”, ...
25 June, 2014

Socialism: A New Set of Posts

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There is no getting away from it! Yet, once more, the steady series of news comments and arguments that have been posted on this blog on S...

Understanding Reality?

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Everybody does it – whether they are aware of it or not! From the football supporter with his pint to the University lecturer with his p...
12 June, 2014

Physics is not the Basic Science

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 It is, at best, the earliest. Criticisms of the usual way that Reality is investigated by Science in general, and Physics in particular...
04 June, 2014

Dark Matter?

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No, I’m afraid you've missed it. It’s behind you!   Pardon me, as I am forced to point out that you cannot see Dark Matter fo...
02 June, 2014

The Worship of Form

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Having read the article about Max Tegmark’s new book Our Mathematical Universe , my dire predictions for the unavoidable future of...

A Peak in Darien?

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This long series of papers, in both Science and Philosophy, may seem like an intellectual self-indulgence, but that certainly is not the...
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