John Robson
Contributor at National Post
Freelance Writer at Freelance
Journalist, historian, documentary filmmaker.
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6 days ago |
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“the scientist who looks at a swinging stone can have no experience that is in principle more elementary than seeing a pendulum. The alternative is not some hypothetical ‘fixed’ vision, but vision through another paradigm, one which makes the swinging stone something else.” Thomas S. Kuhn The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition
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1 week ago |
thejohnrobson.com | John Robson
“Whenever a moral issue is raised, the reflex of many people is to spout, ‘Who is to say what is right or wrong?’ This is the wrong question. The right question isn’t ‘Who is to say?' but 'How can we find out?’”
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1 week ago |
thejohnrobson.com | John Robson
“I got an invitation from Carleton University’s College of the Humanities and College Anniversary Committee to a 10th anniversary celebration with a lecture from professor Roy Mottahedeh of Harvard on ‘Pluralism in Non-Western Traditions: the Case of Islam’ which added (generically) ‘Your presence will enrich this momentous occasion for us.’ And I thought ‘Sorry, I’m having my leg pulled that night.’” One of mine, from September 15, 2006
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2 weeks ago |
thejohnrobson.com | John Robson
“The laymen who scoffed at Einstein’s general theory of relativity because space could not be ‘curved’ – it was not that sort of thing – were not simply wrong or mistaken. Nor were the mathematicians, physicists, and philosophers who tried to develop a Euclidean version of Einstein’s theory. What had previously been meant by space was necessarily flat, homogeneous, isotropic, and unaffected by the presence of matter. If it had not been, Newtonian physics would not have worked.
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2 weeks ago |
businessmondays.co.uk | John Robson
Oxford RF and 4D Products, two companies based on the national science and innovation campus Sci-Tech Daresbury, have cooperated on a specialist project to craft the next generation of highly accurate, durable solid-state Radar sensors for use in vehicles and machinery.
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