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Posted on January 25, 2017

2008: “Driving in my car” -Clive Thompson on erasing traffic jams

Having recently rediscovered my postings on the Stirling Behavourial Science Blog, I am finding some interesting (well, to me anyway) posts I wrote and totally forgot. Such as this: Clive…

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Posted on January 25, 2017January 25, 2017

Ancient Slavery in Modern Fiction and longterm health impacts

Originally posted on A Medical Education:
This is a post I wrote on the Economics, Psychology, Policy blog, which I got involved with via rather tangential links with  the UCD…

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Posted on January 25, 2017

From “The Mark of the Horse Lord”, Rosemary Sutcliff

At first he had been wild with loathing of his new life, but in four years it had become part of him, so that whether he hated or loved it…

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Posted on January 20, 2017January 20, 2017

From “The Spire”, William Golding

So he sat, watching the armies of sparks that wandered through the fire. He spoke sometimes, but not to Father Adam. ‘Yet it still stands.’ Then he moaned and rocked…

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Posted on January 19, 2017

Fiction Update Jan 2017

2016 was a pretty lean year for me as far as actually writing fiction went. Indeed, there is little to update compared to a year ago. However, as well as the recent…

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Posted on January 14, 2017

Janan Ganesh on “history’s luckiest generation” and J G Ballard on the moon landings

In today’s FT weekend there is an interesting column by Janan Ganesh (who I previously featured on this blog) on how, given our times are in so many ways disconnected…

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Posted on January 10, 2017

Dedication of Roy Sorensen’s “A Brief History of the Paradox”

“To those who never have a book dedicated to them.”

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Posted on January 3, 2017February 27, 2017

“It is jailers who are always on guard against escapism”

Steven Greydanus, “What we lose when ‘Stars Wars’ goes to the dark side”, National Catholic Register 28/12/16 When Star Wars goes to the dark side, a generation raised on Marvel…

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