Deception, self-deception and chimpanzees.

It is easy to understand how we come to deceive other people.  But how can you deceive yourself?  Yet, clearly, we do.  Herbert Fingarette argues that we can put ideas we do not wish to entertain so far to...

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Boredom: answers on a postcard please

A major cause of the First War, but one rarely mentioned by historians who have spilt so much ink on why the conflict happened, was without doubt boredom.   The upper classes were bored because they had nothing to do,...

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A ravishingly beautiful light

On the longest day an evening light of ravishing, exceptional beauty. Most of the things we see in nature are beautiful because of the harmony of their parts. A rose is beautiful because of the exact repetition of its...

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Come on girls you can do better

I am so disappointed in feminism.  I had hoped that if women had more power we would get a more humane, more common sensible, more tender world.  And of course there are some wonderful feminists. But so many  have...

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