Photograph of the Day – Early morning catch
Tags: Dew, Early morning catch, Photograph of the Day, POTD, Spiders Web
Topic: Society and Culture
Region: Northern Ireland
Topic: Society and Culture
Region: Northern Ireland
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Books
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Children of the Revolution (Bill Rolston)
What was life like for children of political activists during the Troubles? A new book by Bill Rolston and published by Guildhall Press during the summer has collected together the stories of twenty Children of the Revolution whose parents’ activities – and in many cases, imprisonment – had a significant affect on childhoods and life [...] read our review »
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Stay out of Libya: counterinsurgency doesn’t work
A moment of some significance in journalism perhaps, as the New York Times reviews the current talked about book, The Wrong War: Grit, Strategy, and the Way Out of Afghanistan by Bing West. The author is no bleeding heart but a former assistant Defense Secretary from the Reagan era who stomped his way round the Afghan [...] read our review »
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The lost art of reading (or drowning in too much information)…
Here’s a great review of a fascinating book (H/T reader Rory) on how the Internet is destroying our capacity for intelligent, focused and critical thought. It opens thus: …here is the news that Ulin brings in this slim, meandering book: that reading is “an act of contemplation”; that such an act becomes more difficult in [...] read our review »
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Unrelated Moochin, but I saw the cover to this weeks Time magazine and was struck by how, every once in a while, the photo journalists can produce a defining image that just blows anything their prosaic colleagues can do out of the water.
http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,20100809,00.html
The most moving but also very disturbing photo i recall was of a starving child squating with a buzzard/vulture stood over it waiting for the child to die. Thank you Moochin for this little moment of peace.