Harmless Drudgery

Random thoughts from a wordsmith, budding lexicographer, and 'snapper up of unconsidered trifles'.

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Monday, 14 April 2025

Summit or nuffink

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In 2008 the  New York Times  published this report: RIO de JANEIRO — Marina Silva, the environmental minister who resigned this week, blamed...
Saturday, 8 February 2025

Drill baby drill

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At the end of last month, an article  in New Scientist   announced a research project that, if it goes ahead ( I wonder if USAID is involved...
Saturday, 11 January 2025

Moreish

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 Last July I wrote ( here ) about Ultra Processed Food (UPF), a concept introduced by Dr Carlos Monteiro at a conference in São Paolo in 201...
Friday, 27 December 2024

Not letting the facts interfere with a good headline

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'Well don't say I didn't warn you', as Stephen Hawking might have said. What he actually said was this: “Success in creating...
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Wednesday, 18 December 2024

Unspeakable

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My latest discovery in the podiverse is Unspeakable . I first became aware of this last February when the BBC aired (unexplained initially, ...
Saturday, 23 November 2024

Fanny MendelsTochter

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<explanation> Perhaps the title of this post needs a bit of explanation. Fanny, the daughter of Abraham  Mendelssohn, was educated mus...
Sunday, 3 November 2024

Third time lucky?

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In 2014 I wrote ( here ) about, among other things, the song sung by Catherine Deneuve in Les Parapluies de Cherbourg , ' Ne me quitte p...
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After a misspent youth as an aspiring folk-rock hero and freelance polymath, I became a technical writer in the IT world and then - when I finally ran out of lives, having dodged redundancy for more than 10 years (towards the end of which I coined the word 'sub-Damoclean', to refer to my own position) - a teacher, resource creator, and writer.
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