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Sunday, November 27, 2011

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Scientists have discovered that we’re engineered for kindness – or not. The caring button is a genetic trait that determines how we respond ...
Wednesday, November 23, 2011

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Never underestimate the role of the will in the artistic life. Some writers are all will. Talent you can dispense with, but not will. Will i...
Monday, November 21, 2011

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What the Anthropologists Say about shopping in Sydney (or Broadway ...) - small is beautiful! Surely that little pseudo-gothic church on Bro...
Saturday, November 19, 2011

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What is man? A miserable little pile of secrets. --André Malraux, Antimémoires A new camera captures hundreds of images and lets you choose...
Tuesday, November 15, 2011

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Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its e...
Tuesday, November 08, 2011

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I know all about couch grass, and the fearsome bindweed, and the way to get the dandelion with its root . . . . Apple trees and pear trees s...
Sunday, November 06, 2011

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Courtesy of TM (Trademark of Intel): The Dunning–Kruger effect is acognitive bias in which unskilled people make poor decisions and reach er...

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Everyone knows teens live with abandon online—exposing their secrets, likes, dislikes, sexual preferences, home addresses, phone numbers, an...
Thursday, November 03, 2011

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All eyes are on India as the world awaited the arrival of its seven billionth child and my parents in law might actually meet the baby in th...
Sunday, October 23, 2011

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He has endured 12 premiers, eight speakers and sat through countless debates - and scandals - in the bearpit in Australia's oldest parli...
Friday, October 21, 2011

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Always make the audience suffer as much as possible. -Alfred Hitchcock The 19th-century social network. To enjoy the crowd, Baudelaire told ...
Thursday, October 13, 2011

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After two hundred twenty days or seven months around the world, from NY to Mexico Argentina, Bohemian Czech land of Prague, Spain and much m...
Thursday, October 06, 2011

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Sitting with my gin or whisky afterwards I would often manage to get into conversation with some lonely man or other--usually an exile like ...
Saturday, September 24, 2011

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The image of Sydney is similar to New York it is a city of a giant switchboard. It is very social in Sydney among the Japanese Canadian Pol...