Peter Forbes
Aeon Magazine
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We are heading for a New Cretaceous, not for a new normal
A New Cretaceous is not the new normal: the Holocene was a gift that humanity took for granted and is now helping to bury → Read More
Sensemaking by Christian Madsbjerg, review – 'makes no sense'
A book that uses 'thick data to challenge algorithms. Book review by Peter Forbes → Read More
Sensemaking by Christian Madsbjerg, review – 'makes no sense'
A book that uses 'thick data to challenge algorithms. Book review by Peter Forbes → Read More
Sunday Book: Daniel Levitin
Daniel Levitin makes one reference to Donald Trump in this book (to the latter’s claim to have seen on TV “thousands and thousands” of Muslims in Jersey City cheering when the Twin Towers fell) but he couldn’t have known quite how apposite these words would be on publication: “In the current information age, pseudo-facts masquerade as facts, misinformation can be indistinguishable from true… → Read More
Sunday Book: Daniel Levitin
The acclaimed neuroscientist with a timely defence of reasonDaniel Levitin makes one reference to Donald Trump in this book (to the latter’s claim to have seen on TV “thousands and thousands” of Muslims in Jersey City cheering when the Twin Towers fell) but he couldn’t have known quite how apposite these words would be on publication: “In the current information age, pseudo-facts masquerade as… → Read More
Sunday Book: Daniel Levitin
Daniel Levitin makes one reference to Donald Trump in this book (to the latter’s claim to have seen on TV “thousands and thousands” of Muslims in Jersey City cheering when the Twin Towers fell) but he couldn’t have known quite how apposite these words would be on publication: “In the current information age, pseudo-facts masquerade as facts, misinformation can be indistinguishable from true… → Read More
Sunday Book: Daniel Levitin
Daniel Levitin makes one reference to Donald Trump in this book (to the latter’s claim to have seen on TV “thousands and thousands” of Muslims in Jersey City cheering when the Twin Towers fell) but he couldn’t have known quite how apposite these words would be on publication: “In the current information age, pseudo-facts masquerade as facts, misinformation can be indistinguishable from true… → Read More
Sunday Book: Daniel Levitin
The acclaimed neuroscientist with a timely defence of reason. Book review by Peter Forbes → Read More
Sunday Book: Carlo Rovelli
The author of Seven Brief Lessons in Physics gives us his expanded vision. Book review by Peter Forbes → Read More
Sunday Book: Carlo Rovelli
Scientists today tend to patronise the early Greek philosophers who, 2500 years ago, inaugurated enquiry into the nature of things. The Atomic Theory? A lucky guess, they allege. But Carlo Rovelli accords them, and especially Democritus, the key atomist, pride of place in his narrative: a see-saw battle between notions that the world consist of discrete units, beyond which we cannot go, and the… → Read More