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Losing our fear of death: the third of five, very short, morning reflections on the philosophy of Epicurus for BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

Tolstoy’s parable of the miller revisited—a question of what is the motivating power of the contemporary liberal religious/political tradition?

Losing our fear of an afterlife: the second of five, very short, morning reflections on the philosophy of Epicurus for BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

Nemessētichon—keeping misfortune and guilt apart

A few photos from a spin out to see juniper along Fleam Dyke on the Pashley Guv'nor

Losing our fear of the gods: the first of five, very short, morning reflections on the philosophy of Epicurus for BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

“Antiquity has never felt so alive”—A few words introducing Thomas Nail's recent, remarkable book "Lucretius 1: An Ontology of Motion"

A few photos from a summer spin over to the bronze-age burial mound at Mutlow Hill on Fleam Dyke

“Dizzy with déjà vu”—A meditation on the heatwave, edgelands, Summerfield Avenue & Big Data