Master Your Inner Critic

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What is the inner critic? How does it affect people’s lives? How does it hinder some people from reaching their full potential and realising their dreams, and stop others from enjoying the success they have achieved?

The inner critic is that voice that many people have (more…)

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Shed Days

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Yes, it’s winter: the best time to choose tomatoes varieties. I grow tomatoes in very large pots in the greenhouse. Starting from seed, I sow in January/early February in small trays of seed starting compost - these I place in a propagator until seedlings emerge. A warm sunny windowsill also works. (more…)

Jan

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Why Love and Sex with Robots are Inevitable

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In 1984, in her groundbreaking book The Second Self, Sherry Turkle made us aware of the tendency of some people to develop relationships with their computers. Turkle described one such example: an MIT computer hacker who she called Anthony, who had ‘tried out’ having girlfriends (more…)

Jan

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More Mivlos by Oli Mival

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Christmas and New Year is an odd time (especially if you’re reading this in March). It makes us reminisce about our lives, ponder the wonderful peculiarities, confluences and chance encounters which constitute that which makes us … us. It is a time for reflection, and that is just what I’ve been doing. (more…)

Jan

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Get a warm feeling from a new resolve

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This time of year we want to keep warm at home - and make new resolutions - so it’s a good season to put the spotlight on household energy savings that are good for purse and planet.

For this issue I’ve been reading Oxford-based Chris Goodall’s How to Live a Low Carbon Life* to get the story on our average (more…)

Jan

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Market? Crash! Why market crashes should not surprise us!

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Another market crash. Another occasion when the dogs didn’t bark. Another cohort of economists scrambling for explanations. Why does it happen and why do we always seem surprised? The answer has its roots three centuries ago in the scientific revolution. (more…)

Jan

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SOUTH: In Antarctica with Sue and Hamish

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Our ‘expedition’ ship was the Lyubov Orlova, Russian owned and crewed, chartered and organised by the American firm Quark and with a European hotel staff. She carries just over 100 passengers. Icebreaker ‘adventure’ ships with about 80 passengers will put you ashore for (more…)

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