Kester Brewin

Tag: Science

  • Religion: Ignore God, It’s About The Sacred

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    This month’s Prospect carries an excellent short essay outlining some arguments against Hitchens, Dawkins et al: ‘the evangelical atheists, shouting from their pulpits’. The author, Roger Scruton, is surprised by ‘the extent to which religion is caricatured by its current opponents, who see it as nothing more than a system of unfounded beliefs about the…

  • Gravity and Grace (1) ¦ Wild Blue Yonder ¦ Living Between Two Oceans

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    Last night I went with my good friend and doctor of film Gareth Higgins to see Werner Herzog’s latest film ‘The Wild Blue Yonder’. It’s a deeply comic, deeply environmental parable about space travel, aliens, shopping malls, complex math and hyperspace. And quite wonderful for it. Speaking to Gareth afterwards, I mentioned that the path of the…

  • Rain | Technology Anoraks

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    After about 6 weeks of solid sunshine, it’s finally started raining this week. We needed it. Ironically, the downpours seemed to have caught the water supplies off-guard, and we had 3 water mains burst around our street, closing schools and leaving us without any. The allotment certainly needed the water. I was down there the…

  • Asymmetry | Creativity | The Other

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    ‘In Our Time‘ – the BBC’s flagship science, mathematics and arts discussion programme – was on symmetry this week. It was, as ever, a fascinating mix of physics, philosophy and history, full of interesting moments, but one comment that jumped out at me was part of a section on symmetry in quantum / particle physics:…

  • The Trap

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    Last Sunday saw the start of a 3 part documentary series called ‘The Trap‘. It is by Adam Curtis, the guy who brought us the award-winning ‘The Power of Nightmares – The Rise of the Politics of Fear.’ The Trap is very much in the same style – wonderful archive footage and superbly scripted voiceover.…

  • Damien Hirst | New Religion

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    A unique chance to catch Hirst’s ‘New Religion’ works for free, and in the amazing setting of the church of All Hallows on the Wall. “There are four important things in life: religion, love, art and science. People tend to think of religion and science as two very separate things, one cold and clinical, the…