Marathon Monk: July 2017
I’ve completed the first full calendar month of walking with a break for a week in the English Lake district. I’ve walked 22
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Why we shouldn’t advocate “people” have fewer kids
I often hear people say that there are too many people in the world or even that responsible “people” should have fewer children.
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Marathon Monk and the Pointless Pole
How does meditation work? I’m sure there are loads of scientific papers and sutra commentaries on the subject but I have one mundane
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Marathon Monk: June 2017
Having started on the Summer Solstice I’m going to blog each month to keep track of the progress. Sometimes this might just be
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Marathon Monk Index
Just to reiterate I’m not a monk and I’m not running 26.219 mile marathons – which makes the title a bit of lie.
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Harry Potter and the Hairy Rhodies
It was 20 years ago today, not that Sgt Pepper taught the band to play but that I submitted my PhD thesis. Of
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Setting Off on Project Marathon Monk
Pick a date, any date. I pick this one. A nice astronomical date. This is when the series of “marathons” begins. Summer Solstice
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Lay Pedestrian resolves to mug Marathon Monk
By far the most common metaphor for a life is that of a journey. After all it has a beginning, middle and end.
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Lay Pedestrian meets Marathon Monk
There’s a great art house film called Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter. It is about a Japanese woman who obsessively watches an flaky video
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Marathon Monk: Back story
I remember a story about a guy who set off to walk from the centre of the USA to the ocean relying on
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Wiston Lodge: Turning towards retreat
I’m just back from a four day retreat at Wiston Lodge lead by Dene Donalds that I found very powerful. My sinuses were
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No IR Film required
These trees are the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh were a vivid yellow/green and just a red filter in post process produces this effect.
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Frosty morning at Loch Ness Shores Campsite
Stepping out for a few minutes before breakfast can be magical. Camping makes this more likely.
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Size is important
To encounter something living that is massively larger than you are on your way to nursery but change you.
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Updated my theme
I just used the Fukasawa theme on the Botanics Stories blog so I decided to update my own blog to something else –
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How to lie with a photo
What I like about photography is it is so often about what you want to say and not what reality is. Mixing this
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Actionable, long-term stable and semantic web compatible identifiers for access to biological collection objects
http://stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/23938
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A View to a Chill
Coverage of my recent paper in The Sun – I’ve made it! But surely it should be “Its A View To A Chill.”?
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How Green Is Edinburgh Really?
http://stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/23555
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Automated sampling of perceived naturalness across Edinburgh
http://stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/23353
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Cloud Lottery
http://stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/23051
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Biophilomatics: A new field courtesy of IKEA?
http://stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/22754
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DIY “Silent” Practise Guitar
I just made my first Instructable: DIY Silent Practise Guitar
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Unusual light for Edinburgh
For a treat I had lunch in Yo Sushi on Princes Street – and I actually felt the benefit of the air conditioning! Anyone
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One year old today
I took lay ordination into the Order of Interbeing as True Embracing Oak (Chân Sồi Bao Dung) on 28th August 2015 – a year
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Henry mobbed by his public
During my photo drought I have taken to having my X-Pro 1 with the 27mm pancake in my bag. Carrying but not using. At
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The first photographic portrait of a professional horticulturist?
I just wrote a blog for work about the Hill & Adamson portrait of William McNab. http://stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/21562
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Present moment – it may be just what we think it is.
I enjoyed this video from Veritasium it complements a blog post I wrote back in 2010 – The present moment does not exist – which
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