Broad Oak Magazine

Reposted from 5 April 2015 and more relevant than ever... source Every now and them something bright, clean and optimistic seems to s...

For a different take on China it is worth reading  Troy Parfitt’s  book -  Why China Will Never Rule The World : Travels in the Two Chinas...

If you have a Kindle and £1.00 to spare, Masaji Ishikawa’s  A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea  is well worth read...

It is very agreeable to find yourself alone in a great city which is yet not quite strange to you and in a large empty hotel. It gives you...

According to  trustedreviews   the latest rumour is that Apple’s iPhone 8 launch event will take place on September 12. Two weeks to ...

But fortunately not that kind of abduction.  A few weeks ago Aeon published a  fascinating article  by Karl Friston, but first of all i...

source An interesting post from  Aeon  by Nick Romeo draws parallels between Plato's ideas and modern behavioural psychology and e...

Quillette has a piece  on the invasion of the humanities by an intolerant political orthodoxy. Over the last three or four decades, the hum...

Prince Charles: 100 months to save the world The Prince of Wales is to issue a stark warning that nations have "less than 100 month...

source Although it would have been difficult for Pringle to look other than a gentleman, with his slim athletic figure clothed in the ...

Nick Chater again. Many people won't like the ideas he promotes here because they cast aside traditional notions of how our minds...

source From  Science Daily  we have another story about implanted memories. Many people are prone to 'remembering' events th...

Nick Chater  is co-founder of the research consultancy Decision Technology; and is on the advisory board of what was the Cabinet Offic...

As most of us must know, mince pies are the point of Christmas. Admittedly Christmas has become tangled up with manic shopping and se...

source Political conflict has always been painfully divisive and the reactions of UK Remainers and US Clinton supporters to their trag...

Dawn  has a grim piece about a Karachi pensioner's suicide after shameful treatment by officials. ONE can only imagine what it would t...

Part of a gravestone at  St Mary's church, Tissington . It records the death of Frank Richard Allsop aged 43, a saloon steward on t...

From  aeon  comes an interesting piece on what in China is referred to as chabuduo - close enough. Chabuduo implies that to put any more t...