The Making of an Audio Book
CLICK HERE to hear the title opening of CONNECTED, the Audio Book When the nice people at Cherry Hill Publishing approached me last year, asking if they could publish an audio book version […]
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Is it More Dangerous to Travel after a Publicised Suicide?
I’m currently reading a rather fascinating book called Influence, The Psychology of Persuasion, by Robert B. Cialdini, PH.D. and last week I read in it something both astonishing and disturbing. Every […]
Why do people post on-line reviews?
Driven mostly by convenience, wider choices and lower prices, more and more of us are now abandoning the high street in favour of the Internet. And where once we might […]
Surviving Neonatal Care – The 65-day Journey Home from BWH NICU.
Having been asked by staff at the Birmingham Women’s Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit to write a short account of our experiences there, following the birth of our twins, this is […]
Why debate gun control when the evidence speaks for itself?
Whether yesterday’s tragedy could have been avoided with tighter gun controls will once again be hotly debated. For those of us watching from the other side of the pond, it’s […]
Neonatal Consciousness – What is it like (if anything) to be a newborn baby?
Five weeks after the nail-biting experience of having our twins born two months early, my wife and I have now settled into a routine of regular visits to the neonatal […]
The slow climb to babyhood – First reflections on the premature birth of our twins.
On Wednesday October 17th2012, at 10:14am, a tiny baby boy weighing just 1.05Kg was lifted from my wife’s womb through an emergency Caesarian section. One minute later, following a slight […]
What if money was no object?
Today on Facebook, an old school friend shared the above video, in which the late British philosopher, Alan Watts, in a gentle, fatherly and wonderfully mellifluous tone, makes a strong case for pursuing whatever activity […]
Science Fiction Plausibility & The Donnie Darko Effect
My eldest daughter and I recently rented the film Source Code, a fast-paced time-slip / alternative-reality action thriller in which an US army pilot, played by Jake Gyllenhaal, awakens on a […]
Why do we like Music? – Part 2 – Answer: Fractals?
In part 1 of this essay, we looked briefly at the history of music and at possible explanations for its universal appeal. Today, I want to discuss three recent pieces of […]