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A little less conservation…?

Thursday, September 2, 2021

Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World by Emma Marris Bloomsbury £20 (hardback) . Stepping slightly sideways from where she left off in Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World, Emma Marris now turns her attention to a series of ‘exercises in practical philosophy’ on the ethics of humans versus(?) wild animals. From […]

Filed in Journalism, review | Also tagged biodiversity, birds, books, chimpanzees, death, ecology, Emma Marris, ethics, evolution, food, Geographical, Hawaii, New Zealand, non-fiction, philosophy, polar bears, rats, the Arctic, the Royal Geographical Society, veganism, Yellowstone National Park | Comments (0)

The One That Got Away – Shehan Obeysekara

Sunday, September 13, 2020

The Sri Lankan artist and photographer talks about the greatest shot he never got… and one he did. — For the Sri Lankan Sunday Times

Filed in column, interview, Journalism | Also tagged advertising, art, Caravaggio, demons, fire, ghosts, Goethe-Institut, Harold Peiris Gallery, Instagram, Malaysia, myths, painting, parents, photography, Shehan Obeysekara, Sinharaja, snakes, Sri Lanka, Sunday Times (SL), trees, waterfalls, Zdzislaw Beksinski | Comments (0)

‘Cheese sandwich optional’

Thursday, July 30, 2020

Review of Lev Parikian’s cheerful and entertaining Into the Tangled Bank: In which our author ventures outside to consider the British in nature. — For Geographical

Filed in Journalism, review | Also tagged Audis, Beethoven, birds, cricket, Darwin, Elliot and Thompson Limited, Etta Lemon, Gilbert White, John Clare, Lev Parikian, London, music, non-fiction, RSPB, sandwiches, Scotland, spiders, the Arctic, the BBC, the British, the Thames, Wales, Walter Rothschild | Comments (0)

NEWS AT A GLANCE

Monday, May 18, 2020

. In the United States only one about one building in three thousand is even nominally fire-proof. — The Nelson Evening Mail, Thursday, March 14 1907 . Ellis Paz has become the first man in history to be awarded a doctorate by the University of Oxford while wearing just his pants. Matthew Perry once entered a Vanilla Ice lookalike […]

Filed in Journalism, NEWS AT A GLANCE | Also tagged Air India, air travel, America, bears, biography, birds, BMX, books, construction, Covid-19, Edinburgh, Ellis Paz, Emma Bunton, emojis, fire, health, homosexuality, Matthew Perry, Mussolini, Nelson Evening Mail, Nigeria, Oxford, Oxford University, Parsees, Pashto, Poetry, satire, Tamil, trypophobia, underwear, Vanilla Ice | Comments (0)