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Buddhist racism is wrong.
I want to express my sorrow and frustration at the ongoing oppression of the Rohingya. I was reporting on the plight of the Rohingya in Burma and the Chakma in...
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Leaves turning.
Monday, 31 July 2017, was my last day as paid staff at the University of Aberdeen. I have worked at Aberdeen since August 2004. With colleagues, I set up the...
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It’s not a supervillain, it’s a sock.
So I am trying to get Archibald ready to go to the pool, and it’s taken me ages to find his rain trousers (because it started raining, of course). Then...
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Unexpected spreads
By which I mean neither awful sandwich smears nor sprawling midriffs. This afternoon's beach walk confirmed my suspicion that last year's spring floods, which deposited quite a bit of sediments...
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The yam question
This is post recovered from 2010, when we were staying in Florida and working with Bron Taylor and Rick Stepp on a special issue of Religion, Nature and Culture on...