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Continue reading →: Lost in Translation
Working from home, I get to read a lot of emails from far and wide. Some have charming greetings and sign offs that brighten my day. I received one the other day that concluded with …”we understand the delphinium”. Neither sender nor recipient are professional botanists, so the reference to…
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Continue reading →: Fiction, drama, music and economics
We are in a unique position to reflect on our society’s priorities. This will involve some heated haggling and negotiations. Arguments will continue about how much we should spend on the arts, when health, defence and education come top in the pecking order. Music and drama performances got very imaginative…
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Continue reading →: Fake noise
Lockdown sport has been played behind closed doors with recorded crowd noise. This might make playing more comfortable, but it makes for a very strange viewing experience. I am now an avid Blues supporter. That’s the team that plays rugby union in the southern hemisphere’s Super Rugby competition. My weekend…
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Continue reading →: Objective truth
I have just started reading Peter Singer’s book of 82 essays: Ethics in the Real World. This is a very accessible book for those interested in philosophy. Logical positivism had passed me by, thankfully. I get the impression that objective truth was rejected by logical positivists. Derek Parfit has resurrected…
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Continue reading →: Sums
If utilitarian philosophy is about the greater good, to some extent happiness can be quantified. I like the quote I found from Henry Sidgwick “if my happiness is desirable and good, the equal happiness of any other person must be equally desirable…” Axioms, premises and cohesive arguments are the building…
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Continue reading →: Henry Sidgwick
It’s interesting to dip into moral philosophy and see what pops up. I was looking inside Peter Singer’s book Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter and came across Henry Sidgwick. This entry from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is a handy summary of Sidgwick’s…
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Continue reading →: Blood Sugar
I have started monitoring my blood sugar level using a little gizmo called the Accu-Chek Mobile. It pricks your finger, you apply the blood drop to the device and in no time at all it displays a reading. Today it’s 10.4. I’m aiming for 7.0. During lockdown my alcohol consumption…
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Continue reading →: Bike storage
We now have three bikes in the back of our house. My son built a shelter that is ok for two bikes. Now that I have spent big money on an ebike I decided to go online and buy a cover. So why did I pick a bike tent? Because…
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Continue reading →: E biking
My son collected my new Boardman ebike from Halfords. No user manual so we just had to work out the Fazua remote settings for ourselves. . I think I’ve got the hang of it. The more you pedal the greater the assistance if you want it. The LED display gives…
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