Stealing the silver: How we take from the dispossessed, the poor and our own children There are numerous cases where well-meaning people find themselves defending...
To Blame or Not to Blame? The Medical Profession and Blame Culture Traditionally, medicine has been taught by imitation, apprenticeship and humiliation...
Divine Law, Human Prophet: Moses in Hebrew and Greek The Hebrew lawgiver Moses was compared to ancient Greek lawgivers...
Liquidity: Finance in motion or evaporation? House prices stuck? Not enough liquidity. Inflation rising? Too much...
Is the First Amendment the Greatest Right of All? This lecture discusses a hierarchy of rights. Is the First...
Unwritten Laws? Legacies from Antigone and Lycurgus Sophocles’ Antigone refers to “unwritten laws”, as does Thucydides’ Pericles...
Regulating the above average: Luck or skill? Considered thinkers from Mandelbrot ('fractals') or Keillor ('Lake Wobegon Days')...
The Connected Brain: Network and Communication The brain is mostly organised into small modular regions connected...
From Jenner to Wakefield: The long shadow of the anti-vaccination movement In 1998 a medical furore broke out when The Lancet...