Make the World a Better Place

 The news and history books are full of violence. War in Ukraine, fighting in the Middle East, gun murders, stabbings and sexual violence ar...

  "Chinese defense minister to speak at Russian event billed as fighting 'Western world domination' China's defense ministe...

  Because it is a simple fact of physics, that the more carbon dioxide there is in the atmosphere, the hotter the world becomes, the Inter...

  The UN definition of a ‘crime against humanity’ is inhumane acts intentionally causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or to m...

 I’ve called my blog ‘Make the world a better place’ as I think all our actions should be for the benefit of all  others, living now or in t...

 In his short story Typhoon, Joseph Conrad, the early 20th century author famous for his tales of the sea,  describes the story of a steam s...

" What happens under the rule of specialization [of labour] is that, though society becomes more and more intricate, it has less and le...

The writer of a letter published in the New Scientist magazine declares that fathoming human behaviour is hard. However, if we condense the...

  Part 1 The History of the World in a Single Object Having discarded any concept of a creator or afterlife, I didn’t think  I had a spiri...