Posted by: cwlh on: 25/10/2009
I have come across two thought-provoking notices over the last few days.
I am informed, by a normally reliable witness, that the first appears in the women’s toilet in the Chapters Bookshop on the corner of Rideau Street and Sussex Drive. It is inscribed on the wall and reads
I think, therefore I am. Aristotle.
The second [...]
Posted by: cwlh on: 05/06/2009
I imagine everyone who reads this blog (indeed everyone who can read) has by now heard of the terrible injustice being done to Simon Singh in Britain’s law courts by the British Chiropractic Association. If not, there are plenty of articles about the case on almost every science-based blog and even some of the better [...]
Posted by: cwlh on: 21/04/2009
Well, it appears that I angered the new gods yesterday.
We’ve had a very dry Spring in Ottawa this year with cloudless skies for days on end. Last night I went to a student’s home to do some private groundschool teaching and, unexpectedly, it started to pour with rain. When I left 90 minutes later it [...]
Posted by: cwlh on: 14/12/2008
I’m sure that most people reading this posting will also have read the numerous news items and other blog postings regarding the Oxford University Press’ decision to remove certain words from its Children’s Dictionary.
I would like to add my voice to the chorus of dissenters. It is important that our younger generation, when they reach [...]
Posted by: cwlh on: 14/09/2008
There are three threads coming together in this posting: two books and a lunchtime conversation. The two books are the ones I’m reading in parallel at the moment: Robert Fisk’s “The Age of the Warrior” and Alan Sokal’s “Beyond the Hoax”. Parenthetically, it is interesting (to me, anyway) to note that I was actually present [...]
Posted by: cwlh on: 18/07/2007
Yesterday evening I finished off (more-or-less) writing 71 pages on Aviation Human Factors and, believing that to be enough for anyone, cast around for something to read. Down here in the basement we have about 3500 books and I had the 1896 bound edition of Chums Magazine open on the floor where I had been [...]
Posted by: cwlh on: 23/05/2007
There was a remarkably precise headline on a news item on the BBC website a couple of days ago. It said “Scores of people killed in Lebanon”. The first line of the story said that 40 people had been killed so the headline was accurate. Some months ago the company I work for, which employs [...]
