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Bookshelf
Recovery You’re reading again. my brother remarked, last fall. You said you couldn’t read before. I jolted. It was true. When I am depressed I lose the ability to read books. This is one of the worst symptoms. Staring at … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging by Candlelight, Book Reviews, Faith, Life
Tagged Book review, discernment, faith, Life, Vocation
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Bibliotherapy
When in doubt, read the instructions is to productivity what aphorisms are to meaning.
Posted in Blogging Beyond, Book Reviews, Life
Tagged aphorism, doubt, Facebook, instructions, life story, meaning, short poem
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MOOC review of Think Again: How to Reason and Argue
The Coursera course Think Again: How to Reason and Argue started again on Monday – there’s still time to sign up! I took the course in the second half of 2014, making me a Think Again alumnus. If you are … Continue reading
Voices
One of the advantages of being “Beyond the PhD” is having enough time to do all of those things I used to want to do when all of my time was taken up by writing up. After handing in my corrections, and … Continue reading
Margaret McCartney at Skeptics in the Pub
Back in 2009, Hal Varian, Chief Economist at Google, said in an interview I keep saying the sexy job in the next ten years will be statisticians. More recently, his review of Nate Silver‘s The Signal and the Noise, Larry … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging Beyond, Book Reviews
Tagged Angry Glaswegian, Book review, Margaret McCartney, SITP, Skeptics in the pub, The Patient Paradox
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Londoners by Craig Taylor and the A to Z
I moved to London in 2005. After a few weeks living here I concluded that the two most useful things to give a new visitor to the capital would be an Oyster card and a London A to Z. Now, having … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging the PhD, Book Reviews, Fun, Life
Tagged A to Z, Book review, Craig Taylor, Londoners, maps, Oyster card
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Book Review – Stefan Collini asks What Are Universities For?
I picked up What Are Universities For? by Stefan Collini for two reasons. I had been impressed by Collini’s article in the London Review of Books last summer critiquing the Browne review. (I also enjoyed William Cullerne Bown‘s comments on … Continue reading
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Tagged Book review, Stefan Collini, universities, What are universities for?
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Book Review – Misha Angrist Here is a Human Being
I was reading this book on a train. My friend and fellow passenger asked me what I was reading, and then, whether it was for work or for pleasure. I was momentarily flummoxed. There’s meant to be a difference? Given … Continue reading
