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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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...