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Author Archives: Alastair Roberts
Links 9 – 5/10/13
Links for the week. 1. IVF: ‘Where’s All That Grief Going?’ 2. Brain Scans of Porn Addicts: What’s Wrong With This Picture? 3. Lost to the Ages: The Legacy of Myst 4. Deliberation, Obedience, and Scripture – Another superb O’Donovan … Continue reading
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Walter White’s Wicked Felina
Yesterday I watched the finale of Breaking Bad. If you have not yet done so, please stop reading now: the rest of this post will be packed with spoilers.
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Links 8 – 28/9/13
Links for the week. You know the drill. 1. Ethics as Spectator Sport – Brad Littlejohn shares another fantastic O’Donovan quotation. 2. A Bot Called Cricinfo, ‘We Were Burning Through a Million Dollars a Month’ – The history of one … Continue reading
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Links 7 – 21/9/13
Links post for the week. As usual, these are linked as stimulating grist for the mill or sources of amusement: I have key disagreements with a number of the pieces below. 1. All Technology is Assistive Technology 2. A Guide … Continue reading
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Ten Years of Blogging: 2012-2013
The years so far: 2003-2004, 2004-2005, 2005-2006, 2006-2007, 2007-2011, 2011-2012 The following are some of the principal posts during my tenth year of blogging, bringing us right up to the present. September 2012 to Present 1. America Trip: Philadelphia to … Continue reading
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Links 6 – 14/9/13
It’s that time of the week again, folks! Here are some links from the last few days. 1. On Still Reading Barth: Some Sympathetic Reflections 2. On Reading and Not-Reading Barth 3. The Science of Snobbery 4. What Tolkien Officially … Continue reading
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Ten Years of Blogging: 2011-2012
The years so far: 2003-2004, 2004-2005, 2005-2006, 2006-2007, 2007-2011 I created this current blog on October 19, 2011. The following are some of the principal posts during its first year and my ninth year of blogging. September 2011 to August … Continue reading
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The Modesty Debates: Combating Unilateralism and Myths of Strength
In a recent post I made a number of comments on the subject of modesty and modesty culture. I noted the lure of black-and-white ways of tackling such complex issues. Within this post I wish to highlight some of the … Continue reading
Ten Years of Blogging: 2007-2011
The years so far: 2003-2004, 2004-2005, 2005-2006, 2006-2007 At this point we reach a few years during which I posted very little at all. I wrote a lot in other forums and commented extensively on other blogs. Some of these … Continue reading
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Ten Years of Blogging: 2006-2007
The years so far: 2003-2004, 2004-2005, 2005-2006 The following are some of the major posts from my fourth year of blogging. September 2006 to August 2007 1. More on the Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax-Collector 2. Wright and Infant … Continue reading
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Alastair's Adversaria 