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TBH, you should reconsider doing a PhD if you have to ask others, especially one a music website, about suitable PhD subjects. Doing a PhD is difficult and painful even when it goes well, and the momentum to sustain one is usually drawn from a burning passion to do novel research. Also note that...

A friend of mine who's a serious oil investor alerted me to this connection.

There's an interesting China/oil connection see e.g. here, here and here.

I usually make tunes with laptop speakers and cheap headphones. For final masterning I rent a few space in a proper studio. Easy.

Heavyweight! Sounds great (at least on my laptop speakers). You can give it to DJs, send it to labels, try and get it played by the pirates. Well done!

No, it's the same, just more politely expressed. The question is: do we to go down to the level of QM to explain biological phenomena, i.e. how the proteins work in cells, or can all of this be explained classically? The people who are argue for quantum biology all say: in the future we will...

There are only very few known quantum algoritms (see this list), most are fairly artificial. The big one that put (the idea of) quantum computing on the map is Shor's algorithm for factoring integers. All known conventional (i.e. non-quantum) algorithms for factoring integers run in time...

There is no reason to believe quantum computers can do that. QC can speed up some computations like the factoring of integers (which would be problematic for the kind of cryptography used today to secure the internet. Others discuss if there's substance behind quantum biology.

Must be beause Italo-disco was discussed in the context of Claire Dennis' marvelous Beau Travail ...

That seems like an anti-realist statement. Hypothesis and tests are built on top of elaborate scientific theories. Yes. Sure it does. Anyway, maybe you want to reflect on how a typical contemporary scientific experiment like the LHC in Geneva is conducted without several millenia of...

I was not asking about what is "cool" in the blogosphere. I was asking about the key problems of realism (how to define realism in a non-question begging way, how we can access/know about 'reality', how to reconcile realism with all empirical insight into how humans construct knowledge and so...

In what substantial sense? Which of the problems of realism have been solved?

Congratulations advertising industry, you have convinced Mixed Biscuits that wearing "Vibram Five Fingers" isn't in fact wearing a certain kind of shoe! Well done.

They probably do, but (1) don't particularly care about it at that point in their life, where they are hypersocial, more than in any other phase of life, partly because they need to organise their sexuality, (2) there's an observation bias, because you don't notice when people are unreachable...

You probably went to Tower Records or HMV. Everybody between 12 and 25.

LOL OMG/writing = baby-talk/spoken-language

I often find the electronically mediated asynchronous communication introduced by the Internet preferable to F2F because it allows me to think for 10 seconds or 2 minutes before replying, to look up something in wikipedia etc. (Also one can multiplex several interactions at a time easily which...

You spent too much time of your youth in record shops and have a skewed view: what fraction of the population did write fanzines? Was it 0.0001$% or 0.00001%?. Sorry, but the new social media is on a totally different scale.

The current generation of teenagers is the first that writes voluntarily and habitually. To be sure previous generations have written in school and as part of the job, but never -- as a generation -- voluntarily for expressive and social purposes. This is gonna have an effect of some sort, not...

Video to go along with the show in question here!