Category: Book review

• Book note: A Vindication of Phrenology (1894) by W Matthieu Williams

  14 May, 2023

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  I picked this book up in a bookstore I adore – Walden Books in Camden. It is an angry defence of phrenology as a science and works as a great reminder of how far we will go to defend our beliefs, but it is also a challenge to we think…

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• Noise, uncertainty and weather

  1 January, 2023

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  In The Primacy of Doubt: From climate change to quantum physics, how the science of uncertainty can help predict and understand our chaotic world (2022) Tim Palmer, weather mathematician and physicist, explores a set of issues related to uncertainty. It is a great read, even if it gets technical in…

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