(A piece I wrote for the Guardian) A couple of weeks ago, just before my 70th birthday, I completed the Mooloolaba standard distance triathlon (1,500m swim, 40km cycle, 10km run). There was nothing exceptional about my performance, placing 1,509 out of 1,730 overall and 14th out of 18 in my 65-69 age category. But not […]
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Smart people can’t handle Trump. He say something, or does something. On the face, it seems stupid, so they go into pattern matching over-drive, looking for a reason. You see it with the “they’re attacking Iran to screw up China’s access to oil and because America has so much oil and natural gas now.” Well, […]
The racist origin story of the most common college entrance exam
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Insects just aren’t what they used to be
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When a father of astronomy wrote the first science-fiction book about the dark side of the moon
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Suggesting deep evolutionary roots of rhythm in animals
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Timing is key
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The transition from green to yellow is more complicated than previously thought
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There was a time when approximately one-third of the globe was shaded pink, signifying lands that were part of the British Empire. Of course, some people claim that the Empire was a civilising force — a vehicle for spreading democracy and embodying a kind of moral crusade. However, one should always be drawn back to […]
Departing from this amusing yet entirely real vignette, it is worth considering several outstanding and insightful books that thoughtfully engage with various dimensions of this fascinating subject matter: Billig, M. (1995). Banal nationalism. Sage. Bloch, M., & Parry, J. (Eds.). (1989). Money and the morality of exchange. Cambridge University Press. Desan, C. (2014). Making money: […]
My God. What has happened to the Republican Party? The Party of Lincoln, for goodness’ sake!
Nothing about them resembles the Party of Lincoln. Like, for instance, they have a signature hat, but it’s not a stovepipe one.
They don’t wear blankets over their shoulders and laps indoors to protect against the chill as they strategize about the Civil War in 1864. They just turn up the thermostat while fantasizing about a Civil War in 2026.
They don’t see plays anymore. And if they do, they get photographed doing hand stuff during them. Lincoln never did hand stuff. He was too busy bearing the heavy mantle of statehood to do hand stuff. And if he did do hand stuff at any plays, he wouldn’t get photographed. Photographs took longer than hand stuff back then.
They don’t project from their diaphragm with a high, powerful voice that carries their poetic oratory over the heads of the crowd assembled at Gettysburg. They bark unhealthily from the throat like someone who doesn’t understand how a speakerphone works.
They don’t likely have undiagnosed Marfan syndrome, and in fact, they’re not tall at all. Physically or spiritually.
It is a public holiday in Australia today and I decided that I would use the time, which is free of workplace-type interruptions, to finalise a major project that has an impending (very) deadline. So happy holidays to all not that the global events are anything to be very happy about.
Beyond the initial shame, there are rich rewards in sharing important, hidden parts of ourselves with others
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The Day My Dog Spontaneously Combusted there he was –chasing sticks,doing tricks,and all that stuff next minute, woof
Pete McTighe, Steven Moffat, and more attended the screening of the recovered Doctor Who episodes "The Nightmare Begins" and "Devil's Planet."
Det är inte bara den faktiska inkomstutvecklingen som gjort att de ekonomiska klyftorna i Sverige ökat, även skattesystemet och skattepolitiken har bidragit till utvecklingen. När skatterna har sänkts mer för dem med högre inkomster har de fått en starkare inkomstutveckling efter skatt jämfört med grupper som inte fått del av skattesänkningarna. Skattesatsen har sjunkit betydligt […]
Slow Puncture I’d use every one of them – each tiny symbol / sign –to ‘light up’ my words … and write eye-catching lines:the comma; the colon; the ellipsis; the slash;the question mark; the hyphen; the en and em dash. In stanzas 1-2, it was all there on show(Was there nothing not used? The short…
Maj and I went to see a world-famous comedian perform in Montreal a week or so back. It was fun and funny, but he made some cringeworthy errors talking to the audience that cost him some flat deliveries and lost him some laughs. I’ve seen it a lot when American performers come to Montreal and … Continue reading Notes for US Performers in Montreal
Ahead of next week’s resident doctors’ strike, Keir Starmer and Health Secretary Wes Streeting issued an extraordinary ultimatum to the doctors’ union, the BMA: call off the planned six-day walkout or lose 1,000 promised training posts. The BMA rejected the ultimatum, and the government has now scrapped plans to create the training posts. The six-day […]
By making Iran into a religious crusade, Trump’s spiritual advisers are making the war that much more difficult to end.
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