F1 2021 – Round 1: Bahrain

After what always feel like a long wait, Formula One is back at last! The 2021 season (set to be the longest on record at 23 races) began with the Bahrain GP, and a backdrop of sadness following the death of legendary commentator Murray Walker, earlier in the month. Much has been made of the […]

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The Upgrade…

I’m not too far away from being able to upgrade my mobile phone (currently an Huawei P30) to something new. Ordinarily this would mean sticking with my existing network (Vodafone) and looking at what handset best suited my budget and desires. This time is a little different, for I am weighing up a new network […]

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Blasphemy

What is blasphemy? The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines blasphemy as ‘the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence for God‘. In some parts of the world blasphemy laws used to exist but were abolished years ago. In other parts of the world such laws still exist, and I dare say they are used […]

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Flat Earthers P4c

We continue to dissect the arguments put forward that the earth is somehow not a sphere: So what evidence is given to prove that what I stand on is part of a spinning, orbitting, wobbling ball in a great and grand blackness, just one of many flying things? Boats going over the horizon bottom first? […]

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Flat Earthers P4b

Time to continue with the dissection of Hesedyahu’s Flat Earth post (though another way of looking at this is that Hesedyahu opposed the notion of what he considers blindly accepting a spherical earth). My first look at his arguments can be found here. Now, by “first principles,” I’m not using that in a technical sense. […]

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