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I failed her.
As I was walking to work this morning, as usual rushing because I’d left at the very last possible minute, I passed a woman in the street. I saw her long before she reached me–...
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I recently finished reading Moab is my Washpot, Stephen Fry’s first memoir. I discovered that he too was the child of an inventor, though his dad invented very different types of stuff than...
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I was stuck. I was on the bus, a friend had invited me to what sounded like a glittering intellectual evening at a literary salon in Shoreditch, and I was not moving forward. I’d been on...
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Hello Skirt!istas! Sorry I've been gone. I've been a bit busy...settling in at my new job!
I've also been working away setting up a space where I can keep all my writing at one web...
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A few weeks ago, an article in Science on how search engines are changing the nature of memory became very popular in the news. Specifically, if people know that they can easily look answers up...
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Riots raged around London the past few days, and while things seem to have calmed for this city, violence and disorder appears to be escalating in other English cities. I hope that today will...
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I have triumphantly returned from Exeter with my most excellent trophy of a genuine PhD hat.
It is a very charming hat modeled on a sort of Henry VIII style, with a squashy velvet top and a...
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It'll be a week or so before I blog again. My PhD graduation is coming up next week, family and friends are flying in, and there is a lot of celebrating to do! So I will leave you (for a...
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Lately I've been spending a LOT of time at the computer. The vast majority of my life, in work and entertainment, has revolved around this screen recently, in exactly those kinds of scenarios...
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I entered a writing contest, but alas didn't win this time. Here's what I said:
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I don't know how many of you have ever celebrated your nation's independence day in the capital city of the nation from which your own nation emancipated itself (stick with it, it makes sense!) but...
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Okay, it wasn’t really Entmoot. But that’s what I kept thinking in my head every time I heard the term Ward Mote, which is what I actually went to on Monday afternoon.
Entmoot, as I am sure you...
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It's been unseasonably hot in London the past couple of days. The kind of hot where you stick to things. The kind of hot where the sun looks like a burning laser Sauron eye that you just...
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The women of Saudi Arabia are again challenging the ban that prevents them from obtaining driver’s license. Over the weekend approximately 50 women around the Gulf nation took to the wheel, some...
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I left without my boots. I thought, "the zoo is paved! Surely mud will not be a factor." Oh how wrong I was.
