Diary of a Goldfish

Having tweeted a link to this excellent post from Dr Nerdlove: Socially Awkward isn't an Excuse , I entered into a silly circular argume...

Book shelves with books on. I'm wanting to get back to more personal blogging, but here's a thing about books and poverty. Eng...

The BBC has a lengthy magazine article entitled The Evolutionary Puzzle of Homosexuality . Of course, it is useful for science to investigat...

Obviously, everything to do with human identity is socially constructed. When we use labels to identify ourselves, we're sometimes talki...

During one recent week, I was heartened to read three different articles by disabled people writing about disability in a mainstream context...

A rag rug: A squarish rough-textured rug with a four-petaled flower pattern in blues, greens, purples and pinks. Craft is one of the mo...

It's that time of year; adverts for new diet regimes, articles about makeovers (houses, wardrobes, faces, lives) and on-line dating (I ...