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Brief thoughts on exposure and inheritance
Recent days have seen (another) kerfuffle involving historical research. The basic gist is that a researcher at Cambridge was looking into slavery in…
Sep 5
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In a pickle....
When I was a kid, gift shops (of the kind that sold pot pourri and unicorn figurines) also had a quirky thing: PICKLED PEOPLE. I’ve no idea where this…
Sep 1
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Katrina Gulliver
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August 2023
In a crooked manner
A recent news story was of the tragic destruction of the “Crooked House” pub. The building had apparently started subsiding in the nineteenth century…
Aug 17
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Nature reclaiming its own
In the mid-1920s, Henry Ford was granted a piece of land the size of Connecticut from the government of Brazil. On this land, the Ford company would…
Aug 7
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July 2023
Sending out an SOS to the world
One of the discussion topics this week on twitter was this article from the Guardian, about mental health among authors and publishers. One author…
Jul 23
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Katrina Gulliver
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Lost in a crowd
Readers, it's been a few days. I've been busy, had job interviews, and was watching the tennis (I love watching the major tennis events: when I was a…
Jul 16
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To be seen to be done
The other day I was walking in Visby, on the small Swedish island of Gotland. Driving past were cars that came on the ferry: their owners bringing their…
Jul 1
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June 2023
Teenage wasteland
Teenage girls are often associated with paranormal phenomena. One idea goes that the hormones, the electricity, of being an adolescent girl causes or…
Jun 24
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Katrina Gulliver
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Smoke gets in your eyes
This week has seen smoke from wildfires in Canada filling the air for thousands of miles. On the East Coast, residents are breathing the particles of…
Jun 9
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Katrina Gulliver
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Swizzle, swizzle
This week I was mixing cocktails, and faced with the usual choice of just dropping the lime slice into the glass, or elegantly spearing it on a cocktail…
Jun 6
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Katrina Gulliver
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May 2023
Missing, presumed
This week there were reports that the Ivory Billed Woodpecker, a bird thought extinct, might still be out there. It was last officially seen in…
May 23
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Recognising the sound of your own voice
The other day a friend sent me this amusing little meme. Which one am I? I thought probably Bruce. Yet when I asked a trusted source, I was informed I…
May 18
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