HEALING AND MEDICINE
This is one of three books in this issue by physicians engaged with the nature of healing energy (the others are in Books in Brief),…… Read More »
Book Reviews
SERENDIPITY - THE UNEXPECTED IN SCIENCE
Scientific curiosity disturbs networks of connections that we know little about. Accidents, mistakes, wrong turns, negligence, stubbornness, and by-products disrupt organised protocols. The unexpected, the…… Read More »
AI SNAKE OIL, What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t and How to Tell the Difference
There is no doubt that Artificial Intelligence is having an impact on our lives already. But will it be a change for the better or…… Read More »
THE INDOCTRINATED BRAIN
Michael Nehls is a physician and molecular geneticist specialising in immunology who has received the Hanse Prize for Molecular Psychiatry for his pioneering findings on…… Read More »
PLANTATION OF THE AUTOMATONS
The thesis of James’s Magnum Opus is that ‘we are living in an emergent new Empire of Scientism in the form of a scientocracy’ or…… Read More »
THE SINGULARITY IS NEARER
American computer scientist, inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil is the prophet of transhumanism, the movement that advocates for the possibility, inevitability, and even moral imperative…… Read More »
Hiding in Plain Sight
This is a multidisciplinary exploration of the shaping power of language on our existence and perception of reality and time in relation to what the…… Read More »
God Calling in Poetry
I remember reading the anonymous book God Calling by two British women many years ago. This is a series of themed daily readings with a…… Read More »
The Privilege of Ageing
A well-written and wide-ranging reflection on the many privileges as well as the challenges of ageing. I was struck by two quotations: Lily Tomlin –…… Read More »
Daylight Saving Time
A well-written reflection on the power of growing older by an author who had a wake-up call with a heart attack at the age of…… Read More »