Month: September 2021

• Did you say something?

  There is often a lot more to conversation than meets the ear -hidden things, unstated things- but for some reason, we usually still understand the message. I’d never really thought about this, to tell you the truth, although I was an unwitting acquiescent, I suppose. It’s  easy enough to assume that everything is context driven… […]

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  September 29, 2021

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  Aeon.co, conversation, conversational implicature, conversational maxims, implicature, letters, letters of reference, Maria Kasmirli, Paul Grice, residency training, School of European Education in Heraklion Crete, surgical training, University of Sheffield

• Eenie Meenie Miney

  I’ll be the first to admit that I have been left far behind in the vocabularic peculiarities that are now used to describe non-normative sexuality. Perhaps it’s Age, but more likely naïveté, that has led to this deficiency rather than lack of exposure. I entered medical school in the mid-sixties when the youth were beginning […]

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  September 22, 2021

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  anatomic sex, BBC Future, bicameral, cis gendered, conformity, data gaps, gender dysphoria, genders, genetic sex, Kamilla Kamaruddin, lifestyle, medicine, NHS, non-normative sexuality, physiology, sexual assignation, sexuality, transgender, Zaria Gorvett

• A shoe for your thoughts

  I have often wondered about shoes. Not their styles, or colours, of course -I am indifferent to fashion- but rather about the protection they afford. The benefits they offer. Although I no doubt toddled around the floors barefoot when I was too young to know any better, and even if I nowadays relish the feel […]

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  September 15, 2021

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  Aeon.co, bare feet, feet, Goodwin University, identity, Randy Laist, Shantideva, shoes, socks, soles, technology

• We came crying hither

  I have to wonder about myself nowadays. I used to be a typical, societally conditioned male who seldom shed tears; I kept my grief tightly wrapped, and only unexpected pain, or major anguish was able to wet the cloth. Nowadays, though, I find myself weeping at the strangest things -and not all of them sad. […]

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  September 8, 2021

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  Aeon.co, crying, Darwin, John Donne, psychoanalytic approach to tears, Queen Mary University of London, tears, Thomas Dixon

• Rage, rage against the dying of the light

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  September 1, 2021

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  Covid pandemic, disease, Invictus, Susan Sontag, Tabitha Moses, The Conversation, the Conversation.com, war metaphors, Wayne State University, William Ernest Henley