Truth or Beauty – the page 99 test

“Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you.” –Ford Madox Ford

See the test applied to Truth or Beauty at The Page 99 Test.

 

F*ckonomics

Inaugural issue of Strike magazine (a descendant of the notorious anarchist mag International Times) is on the theme F*cked and has contributions from:

Ralph Steadman – Peter Kennard – Laura Oldfield Ford – David Orrell – Nina Power – Mark Fisher – Lindsey German – Squash – Climate Rush – Dead Philosophers in Heaven.

Read the issue online here.

 

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Truth or beauty?

Most people would not associate the dry pursuit of objective scientific knowledge with a powerful sense of aesthetics. But in many areas of science there has always been a strong belief in the correspondence between truth and beauty – to the point where today some theories almost seem to be competing in a beauty contest. Read more at Huffington Post.

Seeing the light

Latest World Finance column is on the economic equivalent of “dark matter” – read more here.