http://www.because.uk.com For anyone who's ever asked the question, 'Why?' Wed, 26 May 2010 12:47:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "What next after death?" Simon Williams shares some thoughts. “Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.”  Jane* shrieked as the curtain drew round before the coffin.  Her beloved husband and best friend Stephen* had been snatched from her at the age of only 43, his body destroyed by an aggressive cancer ... http://www.because.uk.com/?p=393 Fiona Jones ponders the future of religion.    Britain, according to various statistics, is the least religious country in Europe. Maybe the least religious in what we call the free world. The statistics tend to be based on things like church attendance, affiliation with a denomination, or how you account for your own ... http://www.because.uk.com/?p=386 Sinead Templeman asks some personal questions about Chaos Theory and you.   The world around us is ever changing and the people in it are too. We ourselves change day by day, but can we always see what it is or who it was that ignited this new point of view or ... http://www.because.uk.com/?p=226 "Birds of a feather flock together" is an often heard cliché.Usually we use it in the context of people of a certain type of character, personality, nationality or other categorisation, who are drawn together by their common bond, and it is easy to observe that the adage holds true in ... http://www.because.uk.com/?p=345 "You believe in a God who plays dice, and I in complete law and order."                Albert Einstein, Letter to Max Born.  By the 18th century, many scientists were convinced that they were well on the way to identifying the essential, immutable laws of nature. There was a strongly held belief that ... http://www.because.uk.com/?p=133 Have we become addicted to instant gratification? Everywhere we go, everywhere we look, we see some form of instant gratification. Cellphones and computers are two of the most predominant types of instant technology - things that many of us use every day. This technology is very useful, and I still find it ... http://www.because.uk.com/?p=11 Fiona Jones questions whether we should try to colonize the planets.                        You know why they've been sending robots to Mars, don't you? They want to send you or your children next. They figure the earth won't last for ever, and that even if we don't destroy the biosphere or turn ... http://www.because.uk.com/?p=24