Gong reminds me that this state of affairs is America’s fault. If it were not for Obama’s pivot to Asia and the planned Trans-Pacific Partnership, China would not feel so tightly hemmed in. (He forebears to mention America’s Seventh Fleet that once defended the Strait, and American aid to Taiwan, but it hangs there, a given.) I need to understand China’s history; I need to understand that for China, the worst thing that can happen is chaos, and this has always been precipitated by the incursions of foreigners. “The Americans are backing the Occupy Central protests in Hong Kong,” he says confidently. I ask him what his sources are, and he tells me there have been reports.

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But for all the people who are exasperated by Friston’s impenetrability, there are nearly as many who feel he has unlocked something huge, an idea every bit as expansive as Darwin’s theory of natural selection. When the Canadian philosopher Maxwell Ramstead first read Friston’s work in 2014, he had already been trying to find ways to connect complex living systems that exist at different scales—from cells to brains to individuals to cultures. In 2016 he met Friston, who told him that the same math that applies to cellular differentiation—the process by which generic cells become more specialized—can also be applied to cultural dynamics. “This was a life-changing conversation for me,” Ramstead says. “I almost had a nosebleed.”

Friston told me he occasionally misses the last train home to Rickmansworth, lost in one of those problems that he drills into for weeks. So he’ll sleep in his office, curled on the futon under his Markov blanket, safe and securely separated from the external world.

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Once more, academics from the university’s Derby Management School have used publicly available information, including data from Companies House, to rank the top 200 private sector, active businesses with registered offices in Derby and Derbyshire on turnover.

Even Friston has a hard time deciding where to start when he describes the free energy principle. He often sends people to its Wikipedia page. But for my part, it seems apt to begin with the blanket draped over the futon in Friston’s office.

‘You will get the money much quicker this way than going through the ownership group and their runaround that they suggest,’ the employee wrote.

Saskatoon’s Harold Orr is recognized as a pioneer in ‘green’ building technology, but his name may be better known in Germany than it is here at home.

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Minister Phillips, to her credit, did exactly what she promised to do. But she was an opponent of the oilsands and a “believer” of renewable energy. She stated that she knew her science and would ignore any argument. She followed the recipe of the green ideology while surrounding herself with likeminded disciples. Ideology trumped science and now we are finding ourselves in a “government-mandated mess” that will cost us millions to get out.