Aesthetics Archive

  • GUEST: The Rt Hon Christopher Monckton, Autodidactic Mathematician, Game Designer, Architect, Journalist, Politician, Skeptic GUEST: Professor Christopher Essex, Dept Of Applied Mathematics And Past Director, Theoretical Physics, UWO; Co-Author Of Taken By Storm Global Warming – Has All The Hot Air Dissipated? Advising Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher – Changing The Views Of The Iron Lady From SudoKu X To...

    Just Right #241 – Guests: Lord Christopher Monckton / Professor Christopher Essex

    Posted on March 15, 2012 | No Comments
    GUEST: The Rt Hon Christopher Monckton, Autodidactic Mathematician, Game Designer, Architect, Journalist, Politician, Skeptic GUEST: Professor Christopher Essex, Dept Of Applied Mathematics And Past Director, Theoretical Physics, UWO; Co-Author Of Taken By Storm Global Warming – Has All The Hot Air Dissipated? Advising Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher – Changing The Views Of The Iron Lady From SudoKu X To...

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  • One of Christmas’s perennial favourites is Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life starring James Stewart and Donna Reed.  What apparently makes this a classic is its underlying theme that one’s life, however ordinary influences many others like the ripples in pond. While this might be a truism it does not in my mind make this a great film.  In fact,...

    “It’s a Wonderful Life”…Or is it?

    Posted on December 22, 2011 | 1 Comment
    One of Christmas’s perennial favourites is Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life starring James Stewart and Donna Reed.  What apparently makes this a classic is its underlying theme that one’s life, however ordinary influences many others like the ripples in pond. While this might be a truism it does not in my mind make this a great film.  In fact,...

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  • With the release of the Atlas Shrugged movie, not to mention the past recession, there has been a renewed interest in the works of Ayn Rand.  Having read all her books my personal favorite of the non-fiction has to be The Romantic Manifesto.  It is this book which has stayed with me for all these 20 years since I first...

    Stop waiting for Godot

    Posted on April 21, 2011 | No Comments
    With the release of the Atlas Shrugged movie, not to mention the past recession, there has been a renewed interest in the works of Ayn Rand.  Having read all her books my personal favorite of the non-fiction has to be The Romantic Manifesto.  It is this book which has stayed with me for all these 20 years since I first...

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  • My first recollection of Star Trek wasn’t its philosophy or its depiction of a positive future of heroes and adventure.  It was being frightened at the image of Balok in “The Corbomite Maneuver”.  I was only six or seven years old after all. Despite that I was an avid fan of the show since it first aired I have seen...

    Star Trek – Gods and capitalists

    Posted on November 19, 2009 | 1 Comment
    My first recollection of Star Trek wasn’t its philosophy or its depiction of a positive future of heroes and adventure.  It was being frightened at the image of Balok in “The Corbomite Maneuver”.  I was only six or seven years old after all. Despite that I was an avid fan of the show since it first aired I have seen...

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