Rohan Roberts | 31 May 2016 Yesterday, Harambe (a critically endangered lowland gorilla) was shot dead by zoo authorities in Cincinnati after a toddler fell into his enclosure. Based on our current relationship with non-human […]
Rohan Roberts | 1st March 2016 Below are a few random notes, redacted from emails I sent during my stay in Uganda. *** *** *** Hello from the Bwindi Impenetrable Rainforest. This area has […]
Rohan Roberts | 9th Feb 2016 In the last few years there have been three fascinating books (among others) about Nothing. The Mystery of Existence: Why is There Anything at all by John Leslie; A […]
Rohan Roberts | 21st December 2015 “Crackles with originality… an awesome book.” – New Scientist “This is a book to read for an inspiring one-man view of what science is all about.” – Sunday Times […]
A few years ago I took a group of Astronomy students to the planetarium in the Sharjah University. After the show the students had lots of questions for the astrophysicist in charge of the Planetarium: […]
This book is a great way to have your mind well and truly blown….” – Salon.com “Seife makes a clear case that information runs deep, akin to logic and pure mathematics, and the laws that […]
“Few writers can match Hitchens’ cerebral pyrotechnics. Fewer still can emulate his punch as an intellectual character assassin. It is hard not to admire the sheer virtuosity of his prose.” – Ed Luce Financial Times […]
“Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty, wisdom, and understanding will come to you that way.” – Christopher Hitchens Iraq today under ISIS is in the throes of orgiastic and depraved violence. […]
Gustav Klimt’s art is thoroughly fin de siècle. It expresses both the bourgeois liberalism of Viennese society at the turn of the century and served as a harbinger of the apocalyptic catastrophe that would befall […]
16 July 2015 | Rohan Roberts “This is one of the best recent books I’ve read, and it’s one that I expect to reread most often.” – Jared Diamond “A thrilling and fascinating book, which […]
Director: Alex Garland Writer: Alex Garland Actors: Alicia Vikander, Domhnall Gleeson, Oscar Isaac Country: UK Finally, finally, finally, Hollywood delivers a movie about Artificial Intelligence and the Technological Singularity that is not entirely dystopian and […]
“He has brought a great story out of the shadows.” – Literary Review “Jim Al-Khalili has a passion for bringing to a wider audience not just the facts of science but its history… Just as […]
Rohan Roberts | 8 Sept. 2014 The last ten years have seen dramatic changes in the field of education. The days of the teacher as sage on stage whose word was gospel are long gone. […]
We’re all familiar with the acronym STEM – Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics. On discovering that students in the United States were lagging behind many other developed countries, Congress authorized massive funding for STEM education. Sadly, […]
Director: Panos Cosmatos Writer: Panos Cosmatos Actors: Eva Bourne, Michael Rogers, Scott Hylands Festivals: 2010 Whistler Film Festival, 2011 Tribeca Film Festival, 2011 Fantasia Film Festival Rohan Roberts | 12 July 2014 If Stanley Kubric […]
Praise: “A brave work of electrifying intelligence and passion, optimistic and revolutionary, destined to endure…” – New York Times “The Denial of Death is one of the few great books of the 20th or any […]
Praise: “Nothing less than a masterpiece…” – Mail on Sunday “A classic to my mind, of the finest documentary writing.” – John Le Carré “Terrific!” – Ian Rankin Awards: The Galaxy Book of the Year […]
Rohan Roberts | 11 June 2014 I can hear the shouts of derision already: “Screw you, Scrooge!” “Shout out ‘Bah-Humbug’ and be done with it.” “Curmudgeon, spoilsport, party-pooper…” I can readily imagine a rich collection […]
It is now widely accepted that the fundamental unit of hereditary is not the species, or the tribe, or even the individual. It is, in fact, the gene. Oxford biologist, Richard Dawkins, elaborated on this […]
Emanuel Kant, the great humanist philosopher of the 18th century, and torch bearer of The Enlightenment in Western Europe outlined his view of peace among states in his essay, Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch. Among […]
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