‘Well, he would say that, wouldn't he?’

They Said He Would Never Read

Mrs. Mary McCullagh reports on the progress she has been able to make in teaching her son to read, although he had been classified as ineducable. The trouble is, of course, that I'm not supposed to be doing it at all. Once your child is classified as 'in-educable', then it follows almost as the night the day that he or she will never read. Not perhaps in theory, but more often than not in pract...

Paul and the Law : What he Does not Say

As Betz observed in 1979, Paul never says that Christians are supposed to ‘do’ the Torah. This article seeks to develop the argument of omission in relation to Paul and the law. What else does he not say? According to Rom. 2.17-29, Jews ‘rely on’ the law, ‘boast’ in the law, know God’s will through the law, are educated in the law, have light, knowledge and truth because of the law, are to ‘do’...

Calculations of the binding energies of weakly bound He–He–H, He–He–H− and He–H–H molecules

We searched for the existence of weakly bound He–He–H, He–He–H− and He–H– H molecules where the binding energies are expected to be of the order of degrees Kelvin. By employing the best empirical interaction between each pair of particles, we solved the Schrödinger equation for the triatomic systems using hyperspherical coordinates in the adiabatic approximation. We found no bound states for 4H...

Autoionization of He and Autodetachment of He- following Bombardment by H+, H2+, He+, and He Atoms

Bateson Did Not Define "information" as "a Difference That Makes a Difference" (and He Would Have Been Rather Silly If He Had.)

Obviously the phrase "a difference that makes a difference" resonates powerfully with many people. Perhaps this is because it is a pointer to a very common and important kind of complexity, in which systems are composed of linked, tightly coupled, sub-systems whose causal relationships have the property that any event in one sub-system (e.g. some property, value or relationship changing, or a p...