Wednesday, January 4, 2017

Mental Health 110 - Taking care of yourself

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Way back in 2013 I ran a whole series on mental health which included the tale of a guy named Richard whose depression kept him off wo...
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Tuesday, January 3, 2017

Reflecting back on 2016...

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There has been a lot of talk about 2016 having been a particularly cursed year.  There were a lot of alarming and sad elements to it for sur...
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Wednesday, December 28, 2016

Bless You Carrie Fisher

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Sometimes it seems that 2016 has been a cursed year for celebrities.  For myself as a child of the 70s/80s, it's felt like watching as a...
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Sunday, November 27, 2016

On the death of Fidel Castro

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I have complex thoughts on the death of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro this weekend. Once upon a time there was a man who was so outraged b...
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Friday, November 11, 2016

Sophie says, "buckle up"

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It's been a difficult week for a lot of people, with the news of the victory of Donald Trump as future President of America. To see so...
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Monday, October 24, 2016

Culture - the "pass the salt" incident

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I was incredibly fortunate to go to lunch last week with Kate Falanga, Parimala Hariprasad, and Stephen Janaway who were all in town for...
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Sunday, October 16, 2016

You don't always need a justification for a test ...

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I was just listening to a Neil Degrasse Tyson lecture whilst out in my garden stargazing, and he had this amazing story I knew needed to be...
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