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Happy birthday ALSONAME !
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Happy birthday, IRONED_ORCHID !
King Arthur and the Clichés
If you haven't seen the new King Arthur film yet, catch it before it leaves the cinemas. It's an example of Umberto Eco's saying that a mediocre film contains clichés, while a great film contain...
Instant Instagram Happiness
The other day I ran into my esteemed colleague Muzaffer Tunca, who as well as being an excellent teacher is a very talented sculptor and photographer. I mentioned how much I liked his latest phot...
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A typical domestic scene: I'm grading papers; Nalan is watching a Turkish soap/melodrama. Nalan: What would you do if some people kidnapped me and asked for $100,000? Me: I'd go and kill them. ...
An Unexpected Parcel
Oh, the happiness of getting a parcel! I ordered some books from Amazon back in November and made the mistake of sending them to my mother's house and sending her a mail asking her to forward the...
Some Thoughts on Gratitude
As I mentioned in class, I thought I might start a gratitude journal this week, given that gratitude is the topic for one of the readings. This is where you write down things you're grateful fo...
Happiness Journal 4: Messing Around with Meditation
1. TARA BRACH'S INTRODUCTORY GUIDED MEDITATION I thought for my next mini project I'd try out some different meditations, given that we're looking at mysticism at the moment. For the first day...
Happiness Journal 3: 5 Days, 5 Senses
1. TOUCH Since we're moving from Epicurus to mystical poets soon, I thought a good bridge between pleasure and spirituality would be sensory awareness. This is an area I've done a little work ...
Happiness Journal 2: Pleasure
Continuing my ENG 101 blog ... Wednesday, 22 February 2017, 9:45 AM Since we're moving on to Epicurus, I thought I'd continue my "happy moments" blogging but focus on pleasure. Waking up earl...
Keto Experiment
I'm now on week two of my experiment in ketogenic dieting. Since it's all the rage, I reckoned I should at least give it a try. (BTW, "all the rage" means "popular amongst the people I follow onl...
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New post on Medium: "The Problem with Cultural Appropriation" . This is an article I'd been meaning to write for about a year and was finally prompted to by Lionel Shriver's Brisbane speech. I sp...
Moving to Medium ... partially
Earlier this year, my website got accidentally wiped by the friend who was kindly allowing me to use his space. Fortunately I had back-ups of most of the important stuff, but it was often in a di...
Why we don't have to accept Brexit
I'm seeing a lot of tweets, status updates and articles to the extent that even if we don't like the result of the UK referendum, we have to accept it because democracy. I'm also seeing pleas to ...
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Happy birthday, CHR0ME_KITTEN !
Project Runway Plus Size
In class a student giving a presentation asked if any of us had any secret vices, or at least things that jarred with our public image. I answered "Project Runway." It's not that I feel ashamed o...
10,000 Hours Revisited
I have an ambivalent relationship with Malcolm Gladwell (a relationship of which he is naturally unaware). On the one hand, I love his ability to seize on apparently insignificant details (Goliat...
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I have just received some academic spam entitled "Top Ten Reasons to Submit Your Paper to Textile Research Journal". Apart from the fact that this sounds like an article from Cracked.com, how abo...
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I've decided my social media fast doesn't apply to Instagram, because I need cute puppy pictures to calm me down before I go to sleep, and LiveJournal, because it predates the term "social media"...
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Happy birthday, MISS_NEXT !
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Happy birthday, ASTERISKHERE !
Ceci n'est pas l'Oignon! (or: Yoga as Canadian Cultural Appropriation)
I used to use yoga as a reductio ad absurdum of cultural appropriation, but it turns out some students are actually protesting against yoga classes on these grounds . Following the fashion of the...
Not the Fall of Rome
One of the sillier commentaries on the Paris attacks I have read so far is Niall Ferguson's "Paris and the Fall of Rome" . It's ironic that it comes from a historian, given its romanticised view ...
What's Wrong With Animal Rights
I've just been reading a touching but rather confusing article by a lapsed vegan that frequently mentions animal rights. After a while I realised what it was that I didn't like about this term. ...
Identity Politics and Goodhart's Law
I've just read Yasmin Alibhai Brown's article "I like Corbyn, but let's face it: we don't need another white man at the head of a political party" because it was generating so much controversy, ...