Science and Its Philosophy From a Marxist Perspective
This week, the jamboree of the rich global elite of the World Economic Forum (WEF) has started again after the COVID interregnum. Top political and business leaders have flown in on their private jets to discuss climate change and global warming, as well as the impending global economic slump, the cost of living crisis and […]
Davos 23: going pear-shaped
By Sean Graham Co-operative Agriculture | RSS.com Catharine Wilson joins me to talk about the history of co-operative work bees in rural Canada. Communal events to complete big projects in short amount of time, work bees are representative of rural Canadian culture and are the subject of Catharine’s new book Being Neighbours: Cooperative Work and […]
Co-operative Agriculture – What’s Old is News
By Cindy Ermus The following is largely an excerpt from Chapter 5 of my new book, The Great Plague Scare of 1720: Disaster and Diplomacy in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World (Cambridge University Press, February 2023). which explores how the Plague of Provence (1720-22) unfolded in the European overseas colonies, paying special attention to the port […]
Violent Encounters: Franco-Spanish Aggression in the Early Eighteenth-Century Caribbean
“The theories of John Maynard Keynes provide the sound intellectual framework for the views which trade unionists had always instinctively held and known to be right” (TUC, 1968, p. 85) The ideas and theories of John Maynard Keynes still dominate the economic views and policy proposals of the leaders of the labour movement in […]
Keynes and the left
Por favor, escuche este episodio haciendo clic aquí. “Las carabelas españolas de principios del siglo XVI eran el tipo de barcos que usaban los exploradores y conquistadores”. – The Lost History of the Incas Para continuar con nuestra narrativa, primero debemos retroceder en el tiempo y viajar a un espacio diferente. Esta semana comenzamos en […]
Ep. 47: La Creación de un Conquistador
Source:Ohio State University People suffering from symptoms of depression or anxiety may help heal themselves by doing good deeds for others, new research shows. The study found that performing acts of kindness led to improvements not seen in two other therapeutic techniques used to treat depression or anxiety. Most importantly, the acts of kindness technique […]
Feeling Depressed? Performing Acts of Kindness May Help
The US and Europe not lifting sanctions shows that they value political gain over human life.
Widespread death and destruction plays second fiddle to Western foreign policy in Syria
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THE GERMAN ECONOMY FOLLOWING THE INVASION OF THE UKRAINE, together with the growing US budgetary deficit and problems with the UK strike wave.
This post is an unofficial sequel to one of my first blog posts from 2007, which was entitled “Quantum mechanics and Tomb Raider“. One of the oldest and most famous allegories is Plato’s allegory of the cave. This allegory centers around a group of people chained to a wall in a cave that cannot see […]
Special relativity and Middle-Earth
Minkowski’s representation theorem is a fundamental result on how polyhedra can be represented. Preliminary definitions In , a polyhedron is a set which can be described as , where and . is an extreme point of a polyhedron if there do not exist such that . is a ray of a polyhedron if is non-zero […]
What is Minkowski’s Representation Theorem?