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Twisted

February 3, 2010

A superficial Review In one of the most quoted poems in the English language – If, by Rudyard Kipling – there is a couplet that ... Read on

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Epistle from Pamphylia

February 3, 2010

Educare The south coast of Turkey, from the southeast corner of the Aegean through to the point where the Syrian and Lebanese Coast bears off ... Read on

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Apes, Humans and 747s

February 2, 2010

Genetics It was in 1997 that Henry Plotkin, Professor of Psychobiology at University College London, published Evolution in Mind.  In this he gave a fulsome ... Read on

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The making of teachers

January 22, 2010

A question of degree It is hard to fault David Cameron’s comment that, when a child steps through the school gates for the first time, ... Read on

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Hunter/Gatherers

January 19, 2010

The scenes of carnage in Haiti, following the earthquake of last week and the estimated 200,000 dead, is horribly reminiscent of The Road.  Scenes of ... Read on

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Finding the missing piece

January 12, 2010

Intelligent behaviour One of the delights of Christmas is doing jigsaws.  The easy part is sorting out the straight pieces, the hard slog is working ... Read on

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The Road

January 11, 2010

My sons are far better read in contemporary literature than I am, and if it were not for their frequent references to the power of ... Read on

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Introducing AML

January 5, 2010

The Apprenticeship Model of Learning Human behaviour fascinates us as much today as it did the philosophers of old.  Yet it is only recently that ... Read on

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Old Year’s Night

December 31, 2009

With Christmas Day falling on a Friday and, so delaying Boxing Day until after the weekend, the last days of 2009 had the air of ... Read on

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The Evolution of Despair

December 11, 2009

Collapse of civility “Millions of Britons unable to cope with modern life,” the Young Foundation reported last week portraying Britain as a psychologically fragile society ... Read on

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