Scotland Trip: The Isle of Mull
Even one of the four pubs, the Mishnish, refuses to reduce itself to the clean, brushed pine and scented toilets one finds in corporatized tourist hotspots. Instead, cobwebs hang from the ceiling, a boat lantern sits precariously above a sooted hearth, and we sit on ripped bench cushions whilst reading piles of well thumbed magazines: Salmon and Trout Fisherman, Shipping World, the RNLI Catalogue. As we pretend to learn about tonnage and tippets, we are secretly listening in to the local amateur dramatic society who are discussing their plans for their next play at the next table. "It's impossible to do anything serious," one grey lady mutters, solemnly, "Every time I walk on stage, people just bloody laugh."
ID: The Quest for Identity in the 21st Century, by Susan Greenfield
Susan Greenfield seems to have something of a paranoia about modernity in her book, ID: The Quest for Identity in the 21st Century, in which she argues that new technology and the rise of fundamentalism are having profound effects not only on the cultural makeup of society, but on the biological makeup of the brain of the modern individual.
Tuition Fee and Contact Hours Calculator
One of my discoveries and motivations for constructing this calculator is that there is currently poor information about how tuition fees are spent in supporting teaching - the percentage which contribute towards infrastructure such as library services, versus the percentage of fees which pay for staff contact time. Consequently, one can question how a tuition fee (£3225 for 2009-10) which is pretty much universally charged across different universities and subjects can be fair, given the apparently different costs for supplying different numbers and types of contact hours or infrastructure services across different subjects.
The Veteran
On the bench provided, he sits at the top of the street
On a shopping Saturday, and watches the faces,
And sweaty palms pinned to plastic bags,
Advancing on their burst between glass fronts,
Muddied with the money of modern style
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