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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
    • 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
    • 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) Politics
    • Anti-Capitalist, For What?
    • Awed by the Amazing Twentieth?
    • Democracy and one-party states
    • 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
      • The Golden Teddy-Bear and the Bloody Shovel
      • 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
  • My Blogs
    • Ukraine – the Current Conflict
  • My Father Raymond Williams
  • My Forecasts Over Past Years

Author: gwydionwilliams

Feb 10, 2023 Uncategorized

New blogs since November 2022

Listed by date at https://mrgwydionmwilliams.quora.com/?sort=recent. Listed by subject, with the most recent first, at https://gwydionmadawc.com/my-blogs/,

Aug 12, 2022 Uncategorized

New Blogs Since 12th July

Jul 12, 2022 Uncategorized

July 2022 – many more blog links.

Sorted by subject. https://gwydionmadawc.com/my-blogs/

Jun 18, 2022 Uncategorized

My Short Science Fiction and Fantasy

At the Coventry Writers Group, we regularly have a competition where everyone writes a short or very-short story on a

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May 3, 2022 Uncategorized

More blogs – 3rd May 2022

I have posted new blogs from 7th March 2022. Not all on Ukraine, though those on Ukraine you might have

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Mar 19, 2022 Uncategorized

A new page on the Ukraine Conflict

Once a month I have been updating a list of blogs. Classified by subject, on a page listing every blog

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Dec 8, 2021 Uncategorized

New blogs – 8th December

Rome’s Undemocratic RepublicHow the system was loaded to give the rich most of the power. Many other new blogs.

Nov 3, 2021 Uncategorized

Blogs for November 2021

Listed by subject: https://gwydionmadawc.com/my-blogs/

Oct 1, 2021 Uncategorized

October 2021 – Update

A lot more on my Blog page.  Also ‘My Forecasts Over Past Years‘ and ‘Ideas You Might Borrow‘.  And a

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Jun 22, 2021 Uncategorized

More Blogs

A web page linking to my Quora Blogs. Everything since May 7th, Many different topics. Grouped By Subject, and Most

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