Modern Heroism
By Mark Carrigan In 1986, DC Comics published a four issue mini-series called Batman: The Dark Knight Returns. While few would have predicted it prior…
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How Public Scrutiny of Power is Becoming the Power to Scrutinise the Public
By Sean Bell Demands for transparency are central to the current culture of public debate. Climate scientists and their associations, the former English football captain,…
Stop Bashing Christians! Britain is Becoming an Anti-Christian Country
By Temi Ogunye It is interesting that many Christians no longer call upon the moral authority of their faith as their defence against criticisms made…
Beauty on the Big Screen
By Valentine Rossetti The commercial release earlier this year of the film ‘I Am Love [Il Sono L’amore]—directed by Luca Guadagnino and co-produced by Tilda…
What Are Libraries For?
By Jason Smith We all have a soft spot for libraries. Maybe from being taken to the small local library by a primary school teacher…
A Thankless Nation
By Sabreen Maryam Ali To read the morning newspaper in Britain today is to trudge through reams of dissent and disapproval with a worldly air…
Hemingway and His Biographers
By Michael Atkinson Authors’ biographies have traditionally delivered varying ratios of worship and destruction—the first quantity an organic by-product of book-love, the second an equally…
The Economic Crisis and the State of Economics
By Rob Killick The Institute for New Economic Thinking, funded by billionaire George Soros, held its first Conference in early April 2010. Just in case…
On the Future of Innovation
By Peter Heller Nowadays, the typical presentation of a futurologist is a near-infinite roll call of possibilities. Sometimes more than a hundred slides create something…
Probably the Best Advertising Strategy in the World
By Bill Borde In one of J.G. Ballard’s short stories, advertising hoardings beam rays into the minds of consumers, causing them to swerve off the…
Beatus of Liébana
This article [Beatus of Liébana] was originally published in The Public Domain Review [http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/04/18/beatus-of-liebana/] under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0. If you wish to reuse…
The Many Lives of the Medieval Wound Man
This article [The Many Lives of the Medieval Wound Man] was originally published in The Public Domain Review [http://publicdomainreview.org/2016/12/07/the-many-lives-of-the-medieval-wound-man/] under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0.…
Plane Carrying 92 Crashes into Black Sea near Sochi – News Article
Monday, December 26, 2016 A military plane carrying 92 people crashed into the Black Sea two minutes after departing Sochi, Russia yesterday. The Tupolev Tu-154…
Dark Energy
Until recently, physicists thought they understood gravity fairly well. Einstein had modified Newton’s theory, but certain characteristics of gravitational forces were firmly established. For one…
Inertia and Noninertial Frames of Feference
One day, you’re driving down the street in your pickup truck, on your way to deliver a bowling ball. The ball is in the back…
Force
We need only explain changes in motion, not motion itself. Aristotle’s ideas about the causes of motion were completely wrong, just like all his other…
Out of Their Love They Made It: A Visual History of Buraq
This article [Out of Their Love They Made It: A Visual History of Buraq] was originally published in The Public Domain Review [https://publicdomainreview.org/2016/09/21/out-of-their-love-they-made-it-a-visual-history-of-buraq/] under a…
Acceleration in Physics
Definition of acceleration for linear v−t graphs Galileo’s experiment with dropping heavy and light objects from a tower showed that all falling objects have the…
All Complex Ecosystems have Parasites
By Cory Doctorow (Paper delivered at the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, San Diego, California, 16 March 2005) AOL hates spam. AOL could eliminate nearly 100…
Why is Hollywood Making a Sequel to the Napster Wars?
By Cory Doctorow (Originally published in InformationWeek, August 14, 2007) Hollywood loves sequels—they’re generally a safe bet, provided that you’re continuing an already successful franchise.…
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