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Reflection | Out of the Mouths of Babes

Norma MacMaster/June 26, 2017February 2, 2018

I am neither a scientist nor a mathematician, preferring to understand the Cosmos through poetry. Einstein and Stephen Hawking baffle…

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Idea | Death of the joke, rise of the factoid

Danny Denton/November 15, 2016February 2, 2018

See: my uncle was once a contestant on Mastermind. Early eighties, height of The Troubles, and, believe it or believe…

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Insight | A writer’s take on coping with depression

Peter Boyd/October 10, 2016February 2, 2018

“Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terrors, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it…

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Essay | The healing sound: music and the power of the word

Conor O'Malley/October 6, 2016February 2, 2018

“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.” Maya…

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Poem | Parting Company

JP O'Malley/October 3, 2016February 2, 2018

I remember the last time we made love Feeling nothing – your body impertinently brash. Dressing in darkness, planning our…

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