Tom and I were talking today about the Hedonic Value Index that he is working on. I wondered aloud to him whether happiness and hedonism are actually alike. One of the great societal problems that we currently face, and is, I believe, a symptom of the GFC, is this confusion between consumption of things as [...]

I was doing some research today on a short story that I am writing about the period leading up to World War 2. Like most research it led to some extraordinary twists and turns and lateral connections with seemingly unrelated topics. Fortunately, living in the age of Google, it is easy to find information that [...]