Alan Turing

Alan Turing, born 100 years ago today, may not have commited suicide after all, according to Professor Jack Copeland, an expert on the man.

Turing was a mathematician, genius and codebreaker.

Copeland believes that it is just as likely that it will be ruled an accident. There was no evidence of anything other than a happy outlook from Turing prior to his death. he was 41 years old when he died, of cyanide poisoning. Apparently, the apple that was found half eaten with him was never tested for cyanide!

Copeland feels that the unhappy life that is painted around Turing has no evidence to support it and there was no suicide note. Indeed, there was a note to remind himself to do things over the bank holiday weekend following his death!

For more information on this fascinating story of a misunderstood man and his swept aside life, have a look at the BBC page for this:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18561092


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Measuring happiness

Something in the news just now that makes me smile is the fact that many upper middle class people on tv discussing how money does not make people happy. This statement could only come from people who have never had to worry about money. Money cannot buy happiness and money not making people happy are two very different things. People are happy when they don't have to worry about debt, long waiting lists for operations (if they have money they can go private), they don't have to worry about whether they can feed their children, or if they are in a car accident that is not their fault but have an old car, their insurance writes it off, so they cannot afford to buy a new car. While money cannot buy the emotion of happiness, feeling financially secure can, at the very least, cut your worries back and allow you the opportunity to breathe. I would be happy going on an around the world trip, or being able to buy my mother a house in the country. these things would make me happy. I do get very frustrated when people who have never had to worry about their finances start telling the rest of the country (an beyond) that it cannot buy happiness. It can to a great extent. This country is falling into a hole. there are a few wealthy people on top of that hole but the rest of us are struggling to climb up that hole. We are deeply concerned about where our next phone bill money will come from, where our meals at the end of the month are coming from and how to get about when we no longer have a car. The gap between the affluent Londoners and the rest of the UK is now a gaping abyss. When is someone going to do something about this?