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Evolving our thinking
Published in the Cork Independent online on 29th July 2012. In the appendix of his 2009 book, The Greatest Show on Earth, Richard Dawkins includes responses to a survey on whether people believed human...
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Rousseau, Steinbeck and the Portuguese Man-O-War
Published in the Cork Independent online on 11th September 2012 My friend tells me that his now deceased father was both wonderfully eccentric and slightly misanthropic. ‘The animal is more civilised...
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Existing as I am, that is enough
I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won – Walt Whitman When you hear powerful types, the successful, waging war against malignant forces it is to tread...
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A high brow exchange of opinion
My friend and I are in disagreement about something. My friend thinks Chopin’s Nocturne No. 6 in G minor is nothing to write home about. I think it is one of the most exquisite pieces of art ever...
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