All Embracing But Underwhelming…

He (the protagonist) has an aversion to light but that doesn’t seem to have any real effect upon him or the plot, the actual Conspiracy is fairly uninspired (although kudos to the writer for trying to make it some of the characters sympathetic towards it; he doesn’t quite pull it off but it makes a [...]

I disagree with the end of the penutimate paragraph, for a variety of reasons, but I quite like this piece on Skepticism/Scepticism, by Rupert Sheldrake.
In practice, the goal of skepticism is not the discovery of truth, but the exposure of other people’s errors. It plays a useful role in science, religion, scholarship, and common sense. [...]

I’m house-sitting for the next seven weeks, which means I’m moving somewhere warmer than my flat but in a locale more awkward to commute from and more isolated in general. In theory this could mean I do a lot of work; on the other hand I don’t have to share a TV with people of [...]