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 Yesterday I read Steven Hales' thought-provoking post about how students have changed (with thanks to Daily Nous for flagging it). Ha...

I started (and never finished) writing this post years ago about moving, and its impact on one's identity.

The coronavirus and its associated lockdown has brought many downsides. But are there opportunities too? Many people have been enjoying th...

Does anyone else walk past this image a lot lately and think 'Joy?' I think Jennifer Lawrence is great, I loved the hunger games ...

The original email charter  sets out 10 rules aimed at saving us all from drowning in emails: Respect recipient's time (ie don't ...

Wouldn’t it be great if we could get everyone eating more healthily, so that we all enjoy longer, better quality lives and require fewer me...

It was recently reported that residents of slums in Liberia and Sierra Leone have been placed under military-enforced quarantines: nobody ...

There are plenty of houses, in the transitional area of Oxford where I live, whose gardens are what some would call anti-social. Lawns un...

See my post over at Auxiliary Hypotheses .

By George Monbiot Allen Lane, 2013 What's the craziest thing you've ever done?

Larry Moran of Sandwalk says that Massimo Pigliucci has nothing to tell him and is on a mere quest for respect when he argues here that t...

If they could choose, babies would probably be happiest dressed in sleepsuits (aka babygros) all day. Stretchy, snuggly, with integral socks...

Haven't blogged so much lately. Orson feeds much more quickly now, and is hugely distractable so I'm actually in some ways missing...

An article at the Huffington Post details five things parents need to stop saying to non-parents and I am totally guilty as charged. Before...

Got the proofs through today for a paper to come out in Journal of Biosciences - title is 'Origins of Evolutionary Transitions'. Its...

When you are pregnant, people who are already parents say to you things like 'everything changes' and 'it turns your world upsi...

No, I'm serious. Stop laughing.

Warning: This post contains seriously long sentences. I once read or heard the statement that all successful song lyrics are variations on...

Modern mothers have so much more time to interact with their babies than did their mothers, or their mother's mothers. What impact is th...

By Oliver James, Vermillion, 2010 Oliver James, a clinical child psychologist of unashamedly psychoanalytic bent, categorises mothering st...