Astra, doing poetry
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One prompt, no cherry-picking: TC: “Now a short poem in the style of the
very best Rilke, in German:” Die Hand im Schlaf Nun liegt sie offen. Alles,
was ...
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India’s Resilience Depends on Diversified Trade - India has signed a flurry of trade deals since Donald Trump’s return to the White House in an attempt to ensure that no single bilateral rupture will cau...8 hours ago
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The Big Power of Small Annoyances - In a small black box, in a cupboard just out of reach of my desk, I keep one of my few treasured possessions: a set of Oblique Strategies cards, signed by ...11 hours ago
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Don’t use a gmail.com address - We are being flooded with spam coming from fake gmail.com addresses at the moment. So, for the moment, I’ve set our spam filter to delete everything from g...18 hours ago
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Kimberlé Crenshaw – becoming a “backtalker” and a life fighting injustice - Kimberlé Crenshaw is a legal scholar, feminist theorist, co-founder of critical race theory and the thinker behind “intersectionality.” Her new memoir, B...1 day ago
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Remembering my Friend Pat Easterling - Yesterday Pat Easterling, the professional mother figure to many scholars of ancient Greek, died at the age of 92. She was not my PhD supervisor, but,...2 weeks ago
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Preregistration has a socio-epistemological and a logical rationale - I will use this banner for posts that seem relevant for our Synthese Topical Collection on Severity and learning from error (CFP here). Many of the issues ...3 weeks ago
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Why was Keir Starmer forced to resign as PM? - by Stephen Fisher, 15th July 2026 Many people are somewhat bemused by Keir Starmer’s resignation as prime minister. Some quite like him and struggle to un...1 month ago
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Relocation - You may have noticed a lack of activity on this blog. I moved to https://brendanhalpin.net/blog some time ago. Please check that location out instead!1 year ago
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Call for paper 8th Workshop Economics & Politics - There’s a call out for the 8th Workshop Economics and Politics, which will be held at Sciences Po Grenoble, on December 16-17, 2025. The workshop’s aim is ...1 year ago
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The new silent majority - [image: The new silent majority] The term silent majority, in both the UK and US, was once used for voters who were socially conservative and also, it wa...1 year ago
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Resonators and kindred frauds - Googling ‘bioresonance therapy’ produces a large number of hits. One of the first comes from the Oxford Chiropractic Clinic, which says “Bioresonance is o...1 year ago
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Reading the referee reports of that retracted paper by the science reformers: A peek behind the curtain - One interesting sidelight of the story of a much criticized and finally retracted article on replication in psychology is that we get to read some of the r...1 year ago
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Thatcherism is dead: Thatcherism lives - Thatcherism is dead. It has ceased to be. It has expired and gone to meet its maker. It has kicked the bucket, shuffled off this mortal coil and joined the...3 years ago
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Some news links: Montréal & Calcutta migration, Chinese languages, former Soviet Union, borders - La Presse notes that suburbanization proceeds in Montréal, as migration from the island of Montréal to off-island suburbs grows. This is of perhaps particu...7 years ago
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How do the world’s biggest drug companies compare, in their transparency commitments? - Here’s a paper, and associated website, that we launch today: we have assessed, and then ranked, all the biggest drug companies in the world, to compare th...9 years ago
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The US Treasury’s missed opportunity - The US Treasury recently published the first in a series of reports designed to implement the seven core principles for regulating the US financial system ...9 years ago
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Enrolment as an Excuse? On the Causal Effect of Education on Fertility Postponement - Women’s mean age at first birth steeply increased by as many as 4–5 years during the second half of the twentieth century throughout Europe and the United ...9 years ago
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