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Gwydion Madawc Williams
Who I am and some of what I've done in my life
00) Main Menu
10) Human Biological History
And So Say All of Me
Blond Hair Occurred at least Twice
Chimp DNA Changed More Than Ours
Chimps Are Never Tame
Cooking Made Us Human
Dark Skin, Blue Eyes – the Original Europeans
Darwin Did Not Justify Capitalism
Gifts Close to Madness?
Human Altruism and Psycopathy
Letter About Memes
Mice more evolved than humans
Natural Selection as ‘Survival of the Grandkids’
Rational Chimps, Hobbits and Starch-Eating Humans
Superorganisms – Ant Nests and Human Religions
The ‘White Race’ does not exist
The Usefulness of Group Thinking
Why Motherhood was Created by Natural Selection
Why Only Some Children Bounce Back From Bad Childhoods
15) Other Science
Big fierce animals are losers
Blog on Science
Constellations – a Human Invention
Does Physics Find Only Holes Within Holes?
Evolution Prevented By Competition
Fearsome dinosaur-eating mammals (deceased)
Humans On A Cosmic Scale
Lovelock’s Gaia Hypothesis as Rehashed Religion
Physics and the Nature of Reality
Schrodinger and Cheshire Cats
Should We Fear Alien Civilisations?
The Decline of US Science
The Large Hadron Collider in 2008
The Unexpected Muon
20) British History
Arkwright and the rise of the factory system
Being An Aboriginal European
Britain’s Mixed Feelings About Hitler in the 1930s
British Democracy Began in 1884
Coleridge’s Alternative for British Capitalism
Edmund Burke’s Beliefs
Mary Tudor and Elizabeth – almost a beautiful story
Petty Describing Real Capitalism
Race & Reformist Rioting – Brixton 1987
Rival British Christianities of the 17th Century
25) World History
Agnes Smedley and China’s 1930s Red Army
Agnes Smedley in the Sino-Japanese War
Celtic, Germanic, Multicultural
Civilisation Alley
Crusaders, Nomads and Conquistadors
Deaths Caused by Hitler
Falsehoods in ‘Seven Years in Tibet’
Hitler – the 13th Chancellor
Israel Taking Too Much
Memories of the Opium Wars
Nation States existed long before the Peace of Westphalia
The invention of agriculture and cities
The original guerillas of Spain
The Truth of Troy
Tibet – what the BBC leaves out
Traditional China Resisted Modernisation.
What If the Russian Revolution Hadn’t Happened?
Why The Ming Sea Voyages Led To Nothing
Woodrow Wilson’s Deceptive ’14 Points’
30) Human Dynamics
‘Everyone’ and ‘Anyone’ are Rival Simplifications of Human Nature
ASCII – an Unhappy Legacy for Computers
Baby Boomers to Blame?
Behind every Great Man there’s a Great Ape
Business Success a Mix of Skill and Luck
Don’t Confuse Mao with Mao
Don’t Speak of Cold Misty Mountains
Is Giftedness Tied to Cultural Values?
Market Minorities Across the World
Months in English – an Odd History
Must We Have the Profit Motive?
References on Green Issues
Secret Internets and Gullible Fools
Western Influence Failing Globally
Why ‘The Individual’ is a muddled idea
35) Wider Politics
Anti-Capitalist, For What?
Awed by the Amazing Twentieth?
Democracy and one-party states
Democracy – Older than Parliaments
Fear of Socialism by the Labour Defectors
How John Stewart Mill twisted the idea of liberty
How National Economies Really Grow
Thatcher struck at the roots of Britishness
The Original Conspiracy Theory
What Was The Minimum for Sovereign States?
Why Profit Needn’t Mean Wealth Creation
37) Adam Smith Misled Us
Adam Smith and the New Right
Adam Smith Faked His Most Famous Claim
Anti-Capitalist, For What?
Arkwright – How Money Conquered Work
Coleridge’s Alternative for the British Economy
Corporations Are Against Individualism
Economics is About People, Not Money
How Real Economic Growth Was Not Based on Adam Smith’s Ideas
The Core Falsehood of Capitalist Economics
The Mixed Economy Won the Cold War
The Original Conspiracy Theory (Which Didn’t Include Jews)
William Petty Describing Real Capitalism
40) Against globalisation
Anti-Globalisation in 2001
Business Success a Mix of Skill and Luck
Chinese Politics Working Well
Degraded Globalisation
Ha-Joon Chang’s “23 Things They Don’t Tell You about Capitalism”
How Everything Changed in 1979
How Roosevelt’s New Deal Saved the West
How the British Empire Blighted Britain
Market Minorities Across the World
Money and Gun-Power – Globalisation as it is
Steven Pinker Misunderstands the Enlightenment
Thatcher struck at the roots of Britishness
The Anglosphere in 2004
The Internet as Secret Policeman’s Friend
The Left Redefined ‘The Normal’
The Unnatural Nature of Commerce
The Web Is Always Insecure
The World After 9/11
The World as a Global Night-Club
Why ‘The Individual’ is a muddled idea
Why All Freedom Includes Limits
Yeltsin’s Final Election and the Near-Return of the Russian Communists
45) Why Humans Make Religion
C S Lewis as hypocrite
Religions as Imperfect Human Understanding
50) Literature, Film and Art
Book Covers
Bulstrode: the Complexities of English Hypocracy
Mark Twain, The Unfunny Underside
Mary Shelley’s misinterpreted Frankenstein
Minterism: an English Vanity
Orwell Looking Down on British Workers
55) Tolkien
000) Lord of the Rings, Chapter by Chapter
101) Opening, and A Long-Expected Party
102) The Shadow of the Past
103) Three is Company
104) A Short Cut to Mushrooms
105) A Conspiracy Unmasked
106) The Old Forest
107) In the House of Tom Bombadil
108) Fog on the Barrow-downs
109) At the Sign of The Prancing Pony
110) Strider
111) A Knife in the Dark
112) Flight to the Ford
170) When Would Normal Gold Melt?
180) Gandalf, Rings and Ringwraiths
201) Many Meetings
202) The Council of Elrond
203) The Ring Goes South
204) A Journey in the Dark
205) The Bridge of Khazad-dûm
206) Lothlórien
207) The Mirror of Galadriel
208) Farewell to Lórien
209) The Great River
210) The Breaking of the Fellowship
270) Who Is Tom Bombadil?
301) The Departure of Boromir
302 – The Riders of Rohan
303 – The Uruk-Hai
304 – Treebeard
305 – The White Rider
306 – The King of the Golden Hall
307 – Helm’s Deep
308 – The Road to Isengard
309 – Flotsam and Jetsam
310 – The Voice of Saruman
311 – The Palantir
401 – The Taming of Smeagol
402 – The Passage of the Marshes
403 – The Black Gate is Closed
404 – Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit
405 – The Window on the West
406 – The Forbidden Pool
407 – Journey to the Cross-roads
408 – The Stairs of Cirith Ungol
409 – Shelob’s Lair
410 – The Choices of Master Samwise
501 – Minas Tirith
502 – The Passing of the Grey Company
503 – The Muster of Rohan
504 – The Siege of Gondor
505 – The Ride of the Rohirrim
506 – The Battle of the Pelennor Fields
507 -The Pyre of Denethor
508 – The Houses of Healing
509 – The Last Debate
510 – The Black Gate Opens
520 – The Rohirrim Song and Sibley’s Additions
601 – The Tower of Cirith Ungol
602 – The Land of Shadow
603 – Mount Doom
604 – The Field of Cormallen
605 – The Steward and the King
606 – Many Partings
607 – Homeward Bound
800 – Tying Chapters to Dates
The Evolution of Gandalf
888 – Finding Tolkien Hard To Read?
A Letter to Private Eye Defending Tolkien
Defending Tolkien Against Michael Moorcock’s Condemnation
Filming Tolkien
Gollum as Stream-of-Consciousness
Power and Politics in Tolkien’s Work
Tolkien and British History
Tolkien and Le Guin
Tolkien as understood by Peter Jackson, Brian Sibley and Ralph Bakshi
60) About Science Fiction & Fantasy
A look at Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
Blog on Science Fiction & Fantasy
Game of Thrones and Other Filmable Fantasy
Home Movies of the Soul
Priam’s Tragedy and the Wrath of Achilles
The Harry Potter Books (in 2000)
The Moral Void in Star Wars
Planets of the Hainish Cycle
70) My Own Science Fiction
700) Very Short Stories
Becoming Dangerous Yellow
Einstein and the Official Christmas Day
Fire works, Ice Endures
How Galadriel Gained Her Ring of Power
Love Among the Little Sparkles
Mistcrap in Flipworld
The Binding Hammer
Turning the Year
Vindalf’s Gift
710) Stories under 1000 words
A Ghost Wind for Christmas
Third Time Lucky
A close transit of a gas giant
A fight at the Temple of the Black Cloud
Bring Me The Head of Lady Godiva
How a robotka was left behind on a primitive planet
Kindness, Choice and Psychopaths
One Walked To War
Several Stars Away From Home
Sociopaths and Osteopaths
The Ashes Of My Brief Existence
The Seven Months War of 1914: 1)
The Seven Months War of 1914: 2) The Marne and Tannenberg
The Seven Months War of 1914: 3) The Christmas Truce and the Bryan Plan
The Seven Months War of 1914: 4) Peace Plans and the Problem of Bosnia
The Seven Months War of 1914: 5) The Consequences of the 1915 Peace
What If Frodo’s Ring Was Not the One Ring of Sauron?
Young Homer Changes the Songs of Troy
80) Holiday Photos
90) My Humour
A Multiverse Excursion
Black Hawk Down Snow Dogs
Coral alarm dwarfs pact to cut gases
What to do with non-BBC Accents
95) My Artwork
My t-shirt design
About Me
My DNA results
Ideas You Might Borrow
Ideas You Might Borrow – 2025
My Blogs
Ukraine – the Current Conflict
My Father Raymond Williams
My Forecasts Over Past Years
Useful Political Websites
2017_12_240104 – My Origins
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