“There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fix…

The University of Bologna has opened a new public library housing the personal book collection of writer Umberto Eco, a decade after his death.

Image from picturesofengland..com Operating on the same site on Vauxhall Bridge Road since 1759, the White Swan pub in Pimlico must certainly count as Old London. While its age is not particularly …

Over 40,000 years ago, our early ancestors were already carving signs into tools and sculptures. According to a new analysis by linguist Christian Bentz at Saarland University and archaeologist Ewa Du...

I wrote this piece on libraries and possible educational responses as part of a longer contribution on the informational disciplines and the iSchool. A principal goal was to suggest that libraries…

You do not get more Old London than the Cafe Royal at the bottom of Regent Street, opened as a restaurant on the same spot in 1865, and recently revived as a luxury hotel after a period of closure …

While reading Dava Sobel’s fascinating study of the life and work of Marie Curie, I was intrigued by a passing mention of something I had not known before: Curie’s involvement in the ea…

These vital institutions can launch businesses and reduce the need for social care

Dr Paul Ayris LERU UCL Open Science

The nature of information has been reviewed and analysed many times, and from different perspectives, as noted in a previous article by myself and Lyn Robinson. New reviews can always give new insi…

In a previous post, I described as “over excited” the idea that the mysterious “dark matter”, that hypothetical form of matter that does not interact with lig…

A recent article in Quanta magazine reminds us of the on-going interest in a rather startling proposal regarding the status of information, its relation to complexity, in the physical and biologica…

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