A World Elsewhere

Note: The Kay Players was active until c. 1985. This blogpost is for the period up to 1965 and is not complete. The Kay Players was...

'Get thee to a nunnery. Why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners?' In Hamlet , the eponymous hero tells his mistress Ophe...

The Ambassadors by Hans Holbein the Younger. The Ambassadors, by Hans Holbein the Younger, was painted in 1533. In addition to being...

In the year 1898, the French anarchist and satirist, Zo d’Axa, decided there were so many phoney asses in his country’s National As...

'Faster, you scurvy scum! Faster I say!' Productivity manager doing the gemba walk. In Japan they have a word - kaizen . Th...

Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte’s first and last novel,  Clisson et Eugenie ,   was published in France in 2007 and in English translation ...

'I think the development of full Artificial Intelligence could spell the end of the human race. It would take off on its own, and ...