Monthly Archives: July 2018

Ravel’s Bolero is our favourite piece of music; not that we know very many. We play it on journeys in the car, loudly. It has only two tunes, repeated twice, five times, with ever increasing volume until the full orchestral … Continue reading →

The human brain is the mechanism of personality, intelligence, emotion, consciousness, memory, creativity and so on. As a computer it has virtually unlimited memory and recall capacity, vast processing power to handle sensory inputs as well as internal networking and … Continue reading →

A little child develops, seemingly the culmination of ages of evolution, or design development, so that the fabulous chemistry of a little man plays out in orchestrated gene expression, neuronal patterning, an intricate immune system, a mesh of metabolic pathways … Continue reading →