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Jun 19, 2021
13 min

#10 Electric Fields

- Ordinary and Non-Ordinary States in a Burmese Monastery - A kind local, with a smile for everybody, who regularly cycled into Pa Auk to...

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Mark Dooley

Jun 6, 2021
6 min

#9 Bowling Together

Like a novel coronavirus, no one is fully immune from the dis-ease of loneliness. A sufficient dose of self-isolation will trigger it,...

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Mark Dooley

May 21, 2021
5 min

#8 Red Rag to a Bull

John Downes Outside athletic circles, David Bedford is no longer a household name. In 1970’s Britain, the sinewy Londoner was easily...

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Mark Dooley

May 8, 2021
8 min

#7 Growing Old Gracefully

Clinic-Chair-View My work gives me some insight into the lives of others. Not being able to travel these days (and who knows for how...

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Mark Dooley

Feb 28, 2021
3 min

#6 How to Humiliate Yourself

Humour Hippocrates, the grandfather of medicine from ancient Greece, had his theory - that the four foundational ‘humours’ underlying...

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#5 The Light Relief & Dark Art of Kayfabe

Mark Dooley

Feb 14, 2021
5 min

#5 The Light Relief & Dark Art of Kayfabe

“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool” - Richard Feynman Fakery & The...

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Mark Dooley

Feb 8, 2021
4 min

#4 The Quiet Room

When was the last time you were home with your family? Not the pixelated zoom or skype versions of family (admittedly, the next best...

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Mark Dooley

Feb 4, 2021
3 min

#1 Apocalypse Now

You've got to remain at home. Even your cities are empty. The number of Covid-19 cases passes 100million worldwide in the week that I...

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Mark Dooley

Jan 10, 2021
5 min

#2 Stories of the Multitudes

Sitting with someone else's story, whether in books, movies or in real life, can sometimes feel challenging. Any true story or fiction...

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Mark Dooley

Jan 10, 2021
2 min

#3 The Basilisk, Reality & Losing Touch

"The basilisk dwelled in the desert, or more accurately, it made the desert" - from Book IX of Pharsalia. The basilisk - a hideous...

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