The Ghosts in Our Machine
There is a guy sitting in front of me crying. He looks like the kind of person I’d be...
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On Board the Soundwatch Boat
The Soundwatch Boater Education Progamme has been running for nearly twenty-five years. Eric Eisenhardt, the current director, is into...
Read MoreBeeping Hearts: in the Whale Museum
A little way into Cindy’s presentation to this group of college biology majors from the local university I suddenly...
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Storying with CETUS, Victoria BC
It’s nice when someone gets it. Not only get it, but when what you want to do is something...
Read MoreVancouver Canada Day 10k, race report
Small world. You travel half way across the top of the globe to take on Vancouver’s finest* in the...
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Running the Trail, Vancouver
I knew I was in trouble when I asked for their times. Patrick was sub-36m for the 10k, 1.18...
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Forty-five days
The chickens are 20 to a crate, and the crates are moved in piles of 2 x 5 by...
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Conversation for Humans and Nature
Both Barack Obama and I visited Tasmania in 2012. One night back at my hotel I was watching the...
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Conversations with ORCA (the charity, not the whale)
Recently I met with Alison Lomax, the Community Engagement Officer for ORCA here in the North East. I worked...
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Churchill Fellow for 2014
Sometimes when you have an idea, you don’t know where it’s going to go. Sometimes, it goes straight into...
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