“He was a queer sort of a chap, and although some laughed at him and considered him anoddity, there was a good deal more that believed him to be a born genius.” Noun ▲ A rare, unusual, or intriguing object “Quite why the word remains something of anoddityin American English is ...
The train home leaves at 1802, making dinner a problem – V/Line’s catering is notoriously erratic, and we get back too late to sensibly eat dinner. Sometimes we have something at a cafe before leaving, other times we’ve bought sandwiches from the Woolworths Metro in the station and eat...
A Simple Intervention is a novel about the ethics of altering people’s (particularly women’s) behaviour to accommodate society or their family’s expectations. Sarah tells Meret the story of a girl from her hometown who fell of her bike but ends up being treated for schizophrenia: “I thin...
Yeah, that was nearly a week ago now, so my memory of it is getting hazy. I mostly remember all theexplainersabout how the share market works and what ashort squeezeis. And the thought pieces about how this kind of coordinated market behaviour is nothing criminal, just ordinary folk playi...
(1) All mammals have innate behaviour tendencies which are molded by the individual’s lifetime experiences. (2) They are sentient (that is they feel and have emotions) and consequently are conscious: awake and aware of the world. (3) They all learn in similar ways. (4) They all have...