Yearly Archives: 2012


This is very much the story of a story

The outline of the tale has been told before. It can be found in Edward Miller’s history of the British Museum, Arundell Esdaile’s book on the British Museum Library,rather more chattily, in Edward Edward’s Lives of the founder of the Museum, and most recently and its first excursion this century outside the literature of the […]

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Digital screams

‘What holds new advance in technology back is not the pace of developments. Is it then the fact that people are generallyconservative by nature? Or is it instead the inability of the marketplace to absorb new products fast enough?There is always a time lag between new inventions and discoveries being made and the release of […]


Day after day

Day after day we hear about how anthropogenic development is causing global warming. According to an increasingly vocal minority however, we should be asking ourselves how much of this is media hype and how much is based on real evidence. It seems as so often is the case, that it depends on which expert you […]

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