Reading time: < 1 min I don’t set resolutions but I always end up with some, this year is turning out no different. Last year the theme seemed to become ‘be healthier’. Whether that was in body (eating healthier, trying to get more exercise) or in mind (avoiding ‘drama’ wherever possible) it seemed to work. That theme remains for this […]
Reading time: < 1 min OTL: Fauja Singh, the runner – ESPN BBC News – The babies who nap in sub-zero temperatures How the CIA Used a Fake Sci-Fi Flick to Rescue Americans From Tehran | Wired Magazine | Wired.com OTL: Michael Jordan Has Not Left The Building – ESPN “I’m Gonna Tell You What I’m Gonna Do”: What It […]
Reading time: < 1 min The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food – NYTimes.com The Audacity of de Gaulle | Hoover Institution Misguided Nostalgia for Our Paleo Pasts – The Chronicle Review – The Chronicle of Higher Education In theory: the unread and the unreadable | Books | guardian.co.uk
Reading time: < 1 min And so he starts again, the silence punctuated by the staccato tap tap tap of the keyboard. He moves in his chair to find a comfortable pose and starts to ponder what he might write, what prose he may be able to dredge from his flaccid imagination. Prose indeed, he thinks. Another helping of scorn […]
Reading time: < 1 min I spent the weekend with some alternative friends. What a strange phrase that is, alternative to what? My regular friends? No, just a different grouping of people brought together by a different bond. Although I’d pause at saying some were friends, acquaintances perhaps? But that’s beside the point. Just as my best friendships all stem […]