Huxley’s early opposition to ‘progressive development’ (part 2 of series)
I left off my last post halfway through an introduction to Thomas Huxley’s positive review of Origin of Species in The Times of 26 November 1859….
Darwin’s ‘Origin of Species’ under fire and defended (part 1)
In my last posts I have been highlighting the fact that Darwin’s theory of evolution ascribed the origin of the first one or…
Is there a fact, or a shadow of a fact?
In my last post I looked at a review (pp 417-9) by anatomist and palaeontologist Richard Owen of a book by William Carpenter about…
Deep sea slime and ooze: did life emerge there?
In my last post, I described the account Darwin gave in his Origin of Species of the initial appearance of life on earth….
Darwin on the horns of a dilemma: how did life begin?
How did we come to be here? Did God create us out of nothing, or did we evolve from inanimate matter by natural…
Grenfell Tower: the road to ambiguity (part 4)
[continued from part 3] The dangers of desktop studies Kingspan give summary details of seven tests to BS 8414 of systems incorporating Kooltherm…
Grenfell Tower: the road to ambiguity (part 3)
[continued from part 2] bba certificate 08/4582 (2008) for kooltherm K15 In October 2008, the BBA issued Agrément 08/4582 (Product Sheet 1) for…
Grenfell Tower: the road to ambiguity (part 2)
[Continued from part 1] In part 1, I said that I would look in turn at three remarkable features of the BCA’s Technical…
Grenfell Tower: the road to ambiguity (part 1)
In my last post, I took issue with the Government’s claim that the building regulations require all elements of the cladding system of…
Grenfell Tower: Why the ACM panels were in compliance with the building regulations
The Government testing program The Grenfell Tower calamity highlighted the possible danger of employing combustible cladding on high rise buildings. Of the two…