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June 04, 2021
How to make sense of a world in which LeBron’s team is eliminated from the playoffs in the first round and England are playing competently in the first test of an overseas series? It feel like all the certainties around which my life has been built are being undermined. LeBron didn’t just ...
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May 21, 2021
Brood X cicadas are remarkable creatures. They hibernate underground for 17 years, foraging on the roots of trees under cover of darkness – sometimes killing them in the process – oblivious to the changes wrought on the world above them. After nearly two decades they build little mud tunnels to the ...
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April 30, 2021
A long weekend beckons invitingly, thus obliterating my ability to settle on a good intro to the links. Time was, the extra day off would be put fully to work: a night out with far too much wine and rich food, sleeping in the next day and then a lazy day in a comfortable chair and pile of books.
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April 23, 2021
What a week. This week’s links are a bit of a mood rollercoaster, because well [waves hands frantically at all of this going on around us]. Honestly, my son is seven months old. He’s now lived through a two strict national lockdowns in response to a rampaging global pandemic, the development an...