by Jack Barrow | Aug 14, 2018 | Media, Non Fiction, Pop Philosophy, Science, Travelogue, Writing
Tim Peake was on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme this morning answering the question of, “Was the universe designed by a higher intelligence?” This was the way the question was posed to Britain’s latest astronaut by the BBC’s Justin Webb. Tim Peak’s Soyuz capsule is...
by Jack Barrow | Feb 15, 2018 | Magic, Science, Technology, Thoughts and Observations
In my coming travelogue (too long in the pipeline) I discuss two ways of looking at and dealing with the world, that I describe as rational and irrational approaches. The irrational approach is often described as magical thinking. Wikipedia defines magical thinking as...
by Jack Barrow | Dec 3, 2015 | General Silliness, Science
by Jack Barrow | Apr 17, 2013 | Media, Science, Social Media, Thoughts and Observations
There’s talk in the media about missions to Mars, there has been ever since the moon landings 40 years ago. How would we fund such a trip, would we be able to overcome the technological and psychological obstacles? These are all issues that now have potential...
by Jack Barrow | Oct 11, 2011 | General Blog, General Silliness, Science, Thoughts and Observations
Many years ago a friend in a pub suggested that gravity pushes and it’s only the existence of a planet beneath our feet that creates a shadow that stops us being pushed away from the planet. If gravity pushes could it explain inflation and, at the same time, the...
by Jack Barrow | Sep 23, 2010 | Non Fiction, Paganism, Pop Philosophy, Science, Writing
Radio 4’s Today programme, today, had a short feature on the thoughts of a physicist named Russell Stannard. In his new book he suggests that we may be coming to a point where science has made the majority of its major advances and that we may not be able to learn a...
