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(Hint: it’s not just about mouth odour) A mouth odour problem is like a snoring problem: the person with it is always the last to know and hardest to convince. That’s why it’s hard to tell someone they have bad mouth odour (aka halitosis), and why most
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Hint: this has nothing to do with grammar First, a way to think about the difference: Something “complex” involves many things. Something “complicated” involves extra things. My computer, on which I’m writing this, is complex, as machines go. My computer crashing because I dropkicked it (don’t ask why
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A poem The world is shrinking— and in response, we are thinking smaller.
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How this paradox applies to writing One of my favourite writing quotes (yes, I collect them) is by 17th-century French mathematician and philosopher, Blaise Pascal. “I have made this longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter.” I find myself thinking about it a lot
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Time we stopped mixing up the two concepts What’s simple is not necessarily easy. Everyone kind of knows this, but people still get the two mixed up. And with good reason, considering that both are about ease. So what’s the difference? Here’s a helpful way to think
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A poem No one is an island, they say but they lie, for what else are we? Bounded by our hard egos and separated by a vast sea of sheer individuality. Yet, we are not isolated for from island to island leaky boats incessantly float on currents of speech piloted
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A meditation on sticks, stones and words Harsh criticism and real communication have this in common: Both are about nakedness. And yet, they are fundamentally different. Communication is you in charge. You in the presence of someone else (or even a group), but taking off your clothes yourself, perhaps because
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A story about how I became free of this question It’s also a story of how one of the most powerful things anyone ever said to me came out of my mouth. It was a piece of advice I gave a friend, except I’m the one who’s
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Lessons from Stephen King’s “Needful Things” Just finished Needful Things, by Stephen King, and I’m still reeling. King is truly a king and remains one of my favourite writers ever, since discovering him in secondary school. This 1991 book is a great example of why the King is
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But it can be fixed. Here’s how. I’m tired. Tired of waking up to news reports that include terms like this… Just in case you have any trouble with the images, worry not, as I intend to break them down further anyway. Pulse.ng informed us of… “A
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(That many of our leaders don’t seem to) While thinking out my second point in my post on what history really is—that it’s not merely what happened, but what’s recorded and (especially) transmitted—it occurred to me Nigeria suffers a failure on just that point. I
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What it really is, and why that matters History is a funny thing. If you ask most people what history was, they’d reply something along the lines of, “What happened in the past.” Which is, well — not quite right. I mean, it’s almost right, but this is one