Live while you are alive
The following are some facts about violence against women in the UK: – A woman dies at the hands of a man every three days. – 1,425 women were killed in the UK between 2009 and 2018. – Almost all young women have experienced sexual harassment in public places. – Almost one in three women …
Owing to the release of dopamine listening to music makes you feel good. This much is known. Studies by Levitin and others suggest the brain’s natural opioids also play a part. Their findings might help explain why music can act as an analgesic, and support its use by some hospitals to help relieve pain after …
“We’re looking for a Treasurer for the Christmas fund”, said Paddy “Didn’t you take on a new one last month ?” said Murphy. “That’s the one we’re looking for”, Paddy replied. (Relevance to Epicureanism? A sole diet of actual news is so depressing that ataraxia seems a thing of the distant past. We need a …
If it were not for my wife’s comfort with her cellphone I might as well be isolated on a tropical island. Everyone in the UK expects you to have a cellphone – the whole health system. the police, the local Council, the Post Office, the Bank, the government, the emergency services. Just everyone. I am …
A new Priest at his first mass was so nervous he could hardly speak. After mass he asked the Monsignor how he had done. The Monsignor replied, “When I am worried about getting nervous on the pulpit, I put a glass of vodka next to the water glass. If I start to get nervous, I …
