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Flamin’ bus is late

  • by Mike McArthur
  • Posted on May 9, 2018October 18, 2018
  • Everyday Life
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Dunedin has a fairly elderly fleet of buses, but at least they don’t burst into flames with alarming frequency as do the buses in Rome: Why do Rome’s buses keep catching fire? (BBC)

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Amygdalae and blogging

  • by Mike McArthur
  • Posted on March 27, 2018October 18, 2018
  • Blogging
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The telling of stories helps us to rewire the brain and reattach emotional significance to the memories we have. The act of being creative helps to balance the tendency to over-rely on logic as a […]

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Small b

  • by Mike McArthur
  • Posted on March 6, 2018October 18, 2018
  • Blogging
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I’m interested in encouraging people to blog, in whatever way works for them. I recently found the following post which does just that: Small b blogging by Tom Critchlow

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Works we will not finish

  • by Mike McArthur
  • Posted on February 28, 2018October 18, 2018
  • Christianity
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I highly recommend this post about the unfinished business of our lives and fulfilling the calling of Christ. The call to the disciples was never Follow me to power, or Follow me to prosperity, or […]

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Anorexic web writing

  • by Mike McArthur
  • Posted on February 21, 2018October 18, 2018
  • Blogging
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A good article on some of the things that make web writing insipid and inspiration to do better: Reviving Anorexic Web Writing by Amber Simmons (2007)

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On editing harshly

  • by Mike McArthur
  • Posted on February 14, 2018October 18, 2018
  • Blogging
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I came across an interesting little post about how to write (and edit) a blog post which is fairly realistic about how the process really happens. I’m not quite as rigorous on the editing now […]

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Facebook targeting teens

  • by Mike McArthur
  • Posted on September 2, 2017October 8, 2018
  • Society
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This article about one of Facebook’s recent experiments made me seriously reconsider whether I am willing to continue using the social network when they are researching how to target people in their weakest moments: Welcome […]

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What it means to be fully human

  • by Mike McArthur
  • Posted on May 8, 2015October 8, 2018
  • Mental Health
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Profound words from an advocate for the mentally disabled To be fully human is really to discover who I am. And who am I? I’m a member of the huge human family, where we’re all […]

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Bringing a daughter back from the brink with poems

  • by Mike McArthur
  • Posted on April 30, 2015October 8, 2018
  • Mental Health
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A beautiful article about how a Mom put poems in her daughter’s shoes when she was going through a period of despair: Before she went to school in the morning, I wanted her to read […]

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