Category Archives: thinking about thinking

Because The Night

Posted on 6 May 2014 by Henry Gee

Kids are wonderful. Also generous. When they were small and running with stenchly ichors from various orifices, they donated a wide variety of microscopic organisms for the amusement of my immune system. That was then. Now, though.

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Learning How to Say ‘No’

Posted on 13 December 2013 by Henry Gee

Notwithstanding inasmuch as which my reputation as an editor at Your Favorite Weekly Professional Science Magazine Beginning With N, I’m just a girl who cain’t say ‘no’. I’m in a terrible fix. I always say ‘come on, let’s go,’ just … Continue reading →

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My Holiday Reads

Posted on 22 August 2013 by Henry Gee

Yesterday I promised a run-down of my holiday reading, so, without further ado, and in no particular order, I shall start with Deer Island, a memoir by Neil Ansell – a short book, but in its way, perfectly formed. Ansell … Continue reading →

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Pride

Posted on 27 July 2013 by Henry Gee

Today the Fine City of Norwich hosted its Pride event, and me and the Croxii went to take a look. Pride comes before a Hall. In this case, Norwich City Hall

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Index

Posted on 27 April 2013 by Henry Gee

The book is written, the proofs have been corrected, the date is set. Yes, The Accidental Species: Misunderstandings of Human Evolution will be out in October, and you can, if you wish, pre-order it. But first, I have to do … Continue reading →

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Tolkien in Cromer

Posted on 3 April 2013 by Henry Gee

I knew that J. R. R. Tolkien had once visited Norwich, but imagine my shock and awe at the news, communicated by my friend Mr M. A.

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Country Life

Posted on 24 May 2012 by Henry Gee

The global economy is in tatters; the Eurozone teeters on the brink; much of Africa is starving; thousands are massacred in Syria; and Israel and Iran edge towards war. Meanwhile, in Norfolk…

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Patterns

Posted on 6 December 2011 by Henry Gee

Being another excerpt from my gestating tome The Beowulf Effect, written today between Liverpool Street and Colchester, after which I played several rounds of Angry Birds. We human beings have at least two remarkable abilities. One of them is pattern … Continue reading →

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It Has Not Escaped Our Notice #151

Posted on 9 June 2011 by Henry Gee

This example kindly sent in by Dr M.-T. H. of London, who found it in the lucre-driven, full-on, high-energy, 24-hour bagel-fuelled city that is New York. So exhausting they named it twice.

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AV

Posted on 9 May 2011 by Henry Gee

Well, that’s over. What’s ‘that’, I hear you cry? Ah, well, ‘that’ was the referendum last week in which the voters in the U. of K. were invited to decide whether they’d like to elect members of parliament in the … Continue reading →

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