Being a Beast talks in the UK

Currently scheduled 2016 UK talks are:

9 February: Royal Geographical Society
5 March: Words by the Water Festival
10 April: Oxford Literary Festival
23 April: Bristol Festival of Ideas
5 May: Chipping Campden Literary Festival
22 May: Wood Festival
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Notebooks

On the shelves in my study there are long rows of small, hard-backed notebooks. Most of them are blue or black, with a red fabric spine. On the spine there are usually some dates, and often some place names: Beirut: …

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A Dyslexic boy in a Trojan horse

‘Come in’, said the Well Known Educational Psychologist. We did. ‘Please sit down’, she said, and we did. She didn’t waste time, and quite right too. We wanted to know.

‘Tom and I have had a very interesting afternoon.’ That …

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In the Hot Unconscious

Charles Foster’s latest book, ‘In the Hot Unconscious: An Indian Journey’, has just been published. It’s about how myths are made and perceived, and about the conversation that has to happen, and usually doesn’t, between the mystical traditions of …

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My son’s dyslexic, and I’m glad

My son is dyslexic, and I’m glad.

Most people think that I am deranged or callous. But I have two related reasons, both of which seem to me to be good.
The first is that his dyslexia is an inextricable …

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Human enhancement: A symposium

23 November 2011: 6-8 pm: E.P Abraham Lecture Theatre, Green Templeton College, Oxford.

Humans have always sought to enhance themselves and their performance. Examples include education, the drinking of coffee, and the choice of reproductive partners whose genes are perceived …

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