Flying cars relaunched (not)

forget the flu commentaries, what we need is flying cars
sorry, that should read, what we need is sensible discussion of why flying cars aren’t going to happen, and here is one, for a change…
which doesn’t mean the next flying car “in development” won’t be leapt upon with grateful cries by journalists the world over
bit like [...]

more on little helpers

don’t want to obsess about drugs to enhance neuro performance here – anyway the book is going well, honest – but this piece in the New Yorker is intriguing. Don’t have much to say about it but, in true New Yorker style, one of the best pieces I’ve read on the subject. If all the [...]

Politics of climate change

Tony Giddens’ new book on climate change is attracting some interesting crits. Giddens is a good specimen of that rare species in the UK, the public intellectual. He’s steered a nicely judged path between devoting his life to the promulgation of a single idea, like Richard Dawkins, and offering views on so many things you [...]

Alternatives to growth?

It is easy to sympathise with the green commentators who are unimpressed by the results (as opposed to the rhetoric) of the various stimulus packages, and how far they fall short of a “green new deal”. However, there are more radical critiques than that which are worth considering, even though they lead to even more [...]