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  In the Chernobyl Disaster (the TV version) the Manager in charge of the Reactor insisted that his staff do as they are told and perform a ...

  Sometimes you just realise that life is just too short, to persist with something you are doing. You get the vibe that you really should b...

  This short book, all eighty six pages of it, reads as though it was originally an academic proposal for a much larger final thesis. It enu...

  I rarely remember dreams, if I do they are recognisably similar in nature. The one's where you are trying get somewhere, but constantl...

A narrative constructed of differing views of the same event or person, well it is an old story trope. But here in Hernan Diaz's Trust i...

It may appear strange for a Buddhist, or anyone whose spiritual affiliations are roughly in the camp of non-theism, to be buying advent rela...

I can always tell when I am resisting change because I can feel myself mentally digging my heals in, digging myself into an intransigent hol...

Earworms tend to be those pieces of music which on first hearing you just cannot let them alone. Play them constantly, repeatedly, sometimes...

My current book pile is getting to be a bit of a stack, and that's before Christmas. I haven't been devoting much time to reading, p...

As I've been obsessively playing Rosalia's album Lux all week, You Tube has been equally obsessively throwing Rosalia videos at me. ...

November has been the month of a medical health review. Blood pressure steady.With controlling my diet, weight loss has been just over a sto...

Boy oh, Boy oh, Boy, are we being treated to a beaut of a late late entry to album of the year here. After Anna Von Hausswolff's album I...

In films today, when they show us a medieval battle scene, you see vast phalanxes of archers launching arrows into the air. Hundreds and hun...