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A new recording of five, very short, morning reflections on the philosophy of Epicurus, first broadcast on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire during September 2018

What Mary Oliver’s black bear can tell us about the earthquake in Turkey and Syria

More speed? More strength? More consumption? More Things?—Revisiting a meditation on love in the time of Coronavirus

Stranger, here you will do well to tarry; here our highest good is pleasure”—letting ‘fellow suffering’ go and encouraging ‘fellow rejoicing’

More speed? More strength? More consumption? More Things?—A meditation on Love in the time of Coronavirus

Facts not fear. Clean hands. Open hearts.—An Epicurean/Lucretian meditation on how to respond to the ongoing COVID-19 epidemic

Learning from Lucretius in the shadow of coronavirus