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09/02/2020:
- A review of Strong Imagination
by Daniel Nettle
"Behavioural scientist Daniel Nettle begins this book with a quotation from Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream":
Q::The lunatic, the lover, and the poet
Are of imagination all compact.
The idea that madness and creativity are connected is an ancient one, and in Strong Imagination Nettle investigates the connection in the light of modern scientific and anthropological evidence..." More
- Guest review: Murder on the Malta Express
by Carlo Bonini, Manuel Delia and John Sweeney
"More than two years have passed since the heinous murder of the Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. Despite the early arrest of three suspects, thought to be the perpetrators of the deed, rather than the brains behind it, nobody has been brought to trial..." More
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Gunpowder Park. Dangerous!
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Ely. Overcast.
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Lidgate. Abstemious (in the 15th Century).
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Swaffham Prior
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Lichfield. Nostalgic.
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31/01/2020:
A review of Aap Slaat Maat (The Evolving Animal Orchestra)
by Henkjan Honing
"Human beings are the only animals that make music, but something in our biological evolution must have laid the groundwork for our ability. Charles Darwin wrote, "The perception, if not the enjoyment, of musical cadences and of rhythm is probably common to all animals, and no doubt depends on the common physiological nature of their nervous systems." Was he right?
Henkjan Honing, a cognitive scientist in the field of musical perception, followed up Darwin's conjecture..." More
24/01/2020:
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March-May 1991
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20/01/2020:
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Newmarket
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Fens
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15/01/2020:
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The sticks, Suffolk
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Hawk
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06/01/2020:
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Yorkshire and Cumbria
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02/01/2020:
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Otley
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Paddling in Derbyshire
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More of West Yorkshire
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Oldies: Germany, early 1991
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27/12/2019:
- Guest review: The Great Romantic: Cricket and the Golden Age of Neville Cardus
by Duncan Hamilton
"Besides the obvious one about the overall quality of this biography of arguably England's finest writer on cricket, one other question immediately springs to mind when considering this book. Could it be of any interest to those with little or no interest in that sport? The first point to be made is that Cardus's journalism was not restricted to cricket..." More
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Cottenham
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Yorkshire
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22/12/2019:
Kayaking videos from August 2018 - Dora Baltea and Rutor, Italy.
17/12/2019:
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Essex's posh end
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The road to Lode
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