Author name: Roderick Benson

Microsoft Office September 2024 Update broke Excel Visual Basic. How to fix it.

A recent Microsoft Office update at the end of August 2024 drastically degraded the performance of Excel Addins and Macros that use Visual Basic Application (VBA). In this video, I demonstrate the seriousness of the problem and provide details on how to uninstall the offending update to return Office to a state where your Macros […]

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Global Heating & why our covid-19 response demonstrates we are not going to be able to correct it.

This thought video I’m afraid is a little dark so if you don’t want to face the bad news of global warming I suggest you don’t watch this one. In the video I explain why I think we are in deep trouble in relation to global heating and why we now have no hope of

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Christianity, The Republican Party and the Prisoner’s Dilemma

In this video I consider the current upheaval that the US Republican party is currently experiencing due to Trump’s continued hold over the party post his 2020 election defeat. As part of the analysis I consider a famous game theory thought experiment known as the Prisoner’s Dilemma and explain how the Dilemma sadly allows despotic

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Could Atheism, like the theism of the middle ages, be hampering scientific progress?

Given it is Good Friday tomorrow, I thought I would do my first thought video on God and Science. In this video I explain why the principle of Occam’s razor is so important to the scientific method and yet the nature of this principle means that God can never enter into the scientific paradigm because

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What’s causing Twenty-first Century Cultural Wars?

In this video I explore the cause of what many commentators have commonly referred to as the 21st century culture wars. In general, we are now living in a time where political thinking has become extremely polarised around a very limited and defined set of ethical issues which include women’s reproductive rights and LBGTQI issues.

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The importance of Non Distortive Vote Tallying (NDVT) for the Health of Modern Democracies

In this video, I consider why it is important for democracy that a voting system truly reflects the majority vote. Systems such as the US Electoral College and the UK’s “First Past the Post” system are dangerously antiquated and need to be replaced as soon as possible. Leaving them in place opens the possibility that

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