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Parade's End

The BBC's transmission of Ford Maddox Ford's Parade's End (a co-production with HBO, and adapted by Tom Stoppard who has a good...

I do a workshop of couple of hours each summer with kids who have finished their Standard Grades (GCSEs in England, i.e they are 16) and ar...

At a time when there is an emphasis on inter disciplinary research, it is not that useful to divide science into separate categories. Ho...

Claiming that the Black-Scholes equation had anything to do with the Credit Crisis of 2007-2009 is a bit like claiming Daimler-Maybach were ...

The question is, how did economics change its attitude to mathematics in the forty years between Håvelmo’s The Probability Approach in Econ...

A research student, working in econometrics has e-mailed me with the comment I am a little confused why many economists do no...

It is well known that Leonardo Da Vinci became interested in the "golden ratio" or "divine proportion". It is somewhat ...

Dr Jack Stilgoe, a science policy wonk, has been thinking about Responsible innovation in financial services and asks the question, in re...

The macro-economics of August 2011 looks much the same as August 1971, but have we learnt anything about the markets over the past forty yea...