Anthony McGowan: How To Teach Philosophy To Your Dog

We’re doing philosophy now, and that means following the argument wherever it leads, like that time you chased a rabbit and ended up with your head stuck in a hole.

Bonnie Garmus: Lessons In Chemistry

“Correct me if I’m wrong, Sheila,” one of the women was saying, “but didn’t she say cast-iron requires zero-point-one-one calories of heat to raise the temperature of a single gram of atomic mass by one degree Celsius?”

“That’s right, Elaine,” the other said. “That’s why I’m buying a new skillet.”

The endless war of light and dark

Rrrruff!

The Weekend by Charlotte Wood

 

This was something nobody talked about: how death could make you petty. And how you had to find a new arrangement among your friends, shuffling around the gap of the lost one, all of you suddenly mystified by how to be with one another. p 7

More amazing animal feats

Some dog!

A Christmas window in Gert’s local shopping centre. Absolute proof that we have very big dogs in Australia.

Nana the nursemaid for bandicoots

 

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-11/maremma-sheepdogs-guard-the-endangered-eastern-barred-bandicoot/8012560

A warning from the Australian Medical Association

Thank you to the Australian Medical Association for this useful tip:

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