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Just in time for Easter, a new survey revealed an astonishing change in religious adherence in the US. For the first time in eight decades of asking about this issue, the polling organisation Gallup found that less than 50 per cent of American adults belonged to a church, synagogue or mosque. This was down from 70 per cent in 1999, a proportion of the population that had remained almost constant since the late 1930s. Across the Atlantic, it has been reported that in the UK’s most recent census the percentage of people describing themselves as Christian is expected to fall below 50 per cent ...

Deconstructing Jackie In an interview in the  Guardian in 2017, the celebrated rationalist Daniel Dennett declared: “I think what the postmodernists did was truly evil. They are responsible for the intellectual fad that made it respectable to be cynical about truth and facts.” If Dennett’s anathema was heard in the afterlife by Jacques Derrida, who died in 2004 renowned as the progenitor of what is commonly described as postmodernism, his shade must have smiled. Nothing is more characteristic of evangelical rationalists than the demonological discourse of fundamentalist religion. Bu...

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Credit: The MIT Press The MIT Press has announced the launch of Direct to Open (D2O). A first-of-its-kind sustainable framework for open access monographs, D2O moves professional and scholarly books from a solely market-based, purchase model where individuals and libraries buy single eBooks, to a collaborative, library-supported open access model. D2O gives institutions the opportunity to harness collective action to support access to knowledge. Beginning in 2022, all new MIT Press scholarly monographs and edited collections will be openly available on the MIT Press Direct eBook platform. In...

Jane Austen's concept of information (Not Claude Shannon's) 12 Jul 2017; 1 Jun 2018; 7 Aug 2018; 29 Aug 2018; 4 Sep 2018 10 Mar 2015; 29 May 2015 (Added introduction);4 Jun 2015; 30 Apr 2013; 16 Dec 2013; 27 Dec 2013; 6 Aug 2014; This file is available in two forms CONTENTS Introduction: Shannon vs Austen Many scientists and engineers, including, surprisingly, some psychologists and neuroscientists, seem to think that what the word "information" and its equivalents in other languages refer to is what Claude Shannon's ground-breaking 1948 paper referred to as "information": a measurable prope...