Monthly Archives: April 2005

Cross-cultural enquiry

Posted on April 5, 2005 by acb

I was reading a rather lucid prediction of disaster for America when the oil supply gets tighter and discovered that one measure of the apocalypse was that you might find it cost $50 to fill your car. I don’t know … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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What the papers said

Posted on April 3, 2005 by acb

Here are the headlines which the British papers that you probably don’t read had on their front pages to mark the Pope’s Death: The Mail on Sunday Camilla will be princess of Wales. Her ex-husband is linked to Sinn Fein … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Good Pope piece

Posted on April 3, 2005 by acb

Much is now being written and recycled about John Paul II’s supposed “failure to understand” the nature of western liberal society. In reality he understood the dynamics of society in western Europe or north America quite well, but disliked much … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Enlargement

Posted on April 3, 2005 by acb

(I didn’t dare call the piece “unlimited enlargement” but that’s what it is really about). One of the benefits of my lovely new camera is there is no real limit to the detail I can extract from a high quality … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Waiting for the Pope to die

Posted on April 1, 2005 by acb

I looked up the obituary of the Belfast doctor who invented the portable defibrillator, and who died in January this year. I did so because it seemed obvious that a lot of suffering is caused by rescuing heart attack victims … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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