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Quote: Gilbert Ryle, The Concept of Mind. Image: Albert Edelfelt, Good Friends, Portrait of the Artist's Sister Bertha Edelfelt.
Scrapbook for March
Tears: an instrument of foreign policy | Wasting police time | Headline of the year award | Rigour, not mortis | Geography made easy | The god of the forest | Hyacinth time | Swiss referendum updates | The Dohlen are here!
How much is your health worth to you?
Posted by Mad Mitch on UTC 2016-03-24 15:17. Updated on UTC 2016-11-16
What's the French for 'dodo'?
Whatever it is, it's dead.
Posted by Austin Morris on UTC 2016-03-23 07:41.
Lenten thoughts, newly assembled
As Christians come to the end of Lent, a period of self-denial and reflection, we ask the question: is it good not to spend money?
Posted by Thersites on UTC 2016-03-18 19:17. Updated on UTC 2016-03-24
Heinrich Heine, 17 February 1856
A tardy commemoration of the 160th anniversary of the death of Heinrich Heine.
Posted by Mad Mitch on UTC 2016-03-17 09:31.
The Swiss artist Hans Erni's monster mural Die Schweiz, das Ferienland der Völker. Rescued, but why and for whom?
Posted by Richard on UTC 2016-03-14 12:42.
Switzerland, Britzerland! So much rubbish, so little time to dispose of it all.
Posted by Mad Mitch on UTC 2016-03-04 13:24.
The Hans Erni lockdown
Imprisoned in museums and coffee table books, his work is destined for internet oblivion.
Posted by Richard on UTC 2016-03-03 08:12.
Switzerland: now safe to visit
Another spine is pulled from the Swiss hedgehog. After safer travel we now have worry-free flatpack shopping. It may not end well.
Posted by Mad Mitch on UTC 2016-03-01 10:02.
Tristram's bad start in life, 2 March 1718
Two hundred and ninety-eight years ago Tristram Shandy was conceived – anything but immaculately.
Posted by Richard on UTC 2016-03-02 07:16.
Montségur, 16 March 1244
The ashes of the 'Friends of God'.
Posted by Richard on UTC 2016-03-04 07:13.
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