by Michael Pearce | Feb 21, 2016 | Blog
There is something terribly wrong with me… I’m not so frightened of women that I’ll deny wage inequalty. I’m not so intimidated by strong women that I feel the need to imply that they are less than women, imply that they ‘slept their way...
by Michael Pearce | Jan 8, 2016 | Blog
There is a saying that ‘An armed society is a polite society.’ This is notably, demonstrably untrue. Elizabethan England was an armed society and even a cursory glance through ‘The Elizabethan Journals’ will reveal that it was anything but...
by Michael Pearce | Aug 17, 2015 | Blog
So on July 9th of this year my workshop burned down, and the house sustained severe damage to the two bedrooms. Bit of a monkey wrench in our lives, but we were well-insured, got a rental for the 6 months or so it will take to repair our home and moved on. Moving on...
by Michael Pearce | Apr 17, 2015 | Blog
Are we alone in the universe? Big question. A very clever fellow named Drake once calculated the odds of intelligent life arising in the universe, and this figure is often quoted as ‘proof’ that alien life exists. The problem is that the Drake equation is...
by Michael Pearce | Apr 11, 2015 | Blog
How about because your name is ‘Weinerschnitzel?’ The fact is the Weinerschnitzel fast-food restaurant chain has, as far as I can tell, never served weinerschnitzel. We’ll forgive them that. This fast-food chain is common in many parts of the...
by Michael Pearce | Mar 31, 2015 | Blog
Increasingly we are seeing VR emerging out of Scifi and into the real world. Successful prototypes are being released and new companies are popping up to meet the inevitable demand. But what about Hollywood? Well it seems that they are paying attention as well. Could...
