F, L and P from the Index of “Eugenics and Other Evils”, GK Chesterton
J G Ballard, in his 1977 short story The Index, told the story of one of the Twentieth Century’s most influential men: Henry Rhodes Hamilton … the only trace of whom…
Tag: technocracy
L.M. Sacasas on accusations of romanticising the past.
At The Frailest Thing blog, L.M. Sacasas identifies something I’ve often noticed and wish there was a handy word for: Steven Pinker and Jason Hickel have recently engaged in a…
Jarod Gott on Tinder, writing and the presentation of the self
Recently I was at Dreams, Hallucinations and the Imagination, a conference organised by the University of Glasgow’s Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience. Dreams and like experiences are an interest…
Trying to do too much – lessons from the Life Study, the Trappists and David Mamet
Here is a post on my other blog “A Medical Education” inspired by a passage in Helen Pearson’s “The Life Project”, which I reviewed in the TLS. An understandable tendency to…
Dear Spotify, Please let me unlink my Facebook Account
I came across this via Y Combinator. I can only echo, pretty much word for word, Eduardo Garcia’s letter: Dear Spotify Please let me unlink my Facebook account Last updated: October 14,…
You are not a product: Phil Lawton on Dublin as a hyper-competitive city
Back in 2015 I attended the inaugural symposium of the Health Research Board’s Trial Methodology Research Network (TMRN), which I blogged about here. The meeting (which was excellent) was in the…
You Are Not A Product: Johnny Ryan, Brave, GDPR and Ted Nelson’s dream
Readers may have recently seen news that the Brave browser has jointly filed complaints against Google relating to their sharing of personal data. Recently I posted a link to NIthin…
Nithin Coca – “How I Fully Quit Google”
Could you stop using Google products? Completely? Not just Google Search, but Gmail, Calendar, and all the rest of their stable of products and services. Nithin Coca has done just…
