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Simply The Best Carrot Cake Recipe

Simply The Best Carrot Cake Recipe

Simon January 1, 2013 0

As a special gift to you all on the first day of 2013, my wonderful, creative, and talented wife, Fatma, has allowed me to share her famous carrot cake recipe. […]

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Surviving Neonatal Care - The 65-day Journey Home from BWH NICU.

Surviving Neonatal Care – The 65-day Journey Home from BWH NICU.

Simon December 28, 2012 4

Having been asked by staff at the Birmingham Women’s Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit to write a short account of our experiences there, following the birth of our twins, this is […]

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Why debate gun control when the evidence speaks for itself?

Why debate gun control when the evidence speaks for itself?

Simon December 15, 2012 0

Whether yesterday’s tragedy could have been avoided with tighter gun controls will once again be hotly debated. For those of us watching from the other side of the pond, it’s […]

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Sentience, Morality and Veganism

Sentience, Morality and Veganism

Simon December 2, 2012 3

Following my post last week, questioning the consciousness of newborns, I exchanged a number of tweets with a professor of developmental psychology, who made the interesting observation that, The points you […]

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Neonatal Consciousness - What is it like (if anything) to be a newborn baby?

Neonatal Consciousness – What is it like (if anything) to be a newborn baby?

Simon November 24, 2012 1

Five weeks after the nail-biting experience of having our twins born two months early, my wife and I have now settled into a routine of regular visits to the neonatal […]

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The slow climb to babyhood - First reflections on the premature birth of our twins.

The slow climb to babyhood – First reflections on the premature birth of our twins.

Simon October 21, 2012 7

On Wednesday October 17th2012, at 10:14am, a tiny baby boy weighing just 1.05Kg was lifted from my wife’s womb through an emergency Caesarian section. One minute later, following a slight […]

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What if money was no object?

What if money was no object?

Simon October 6, 2012 0

Today on Facebook, an old school friend shared the above video, in which the late British philosopher, Alan Watts, in a gentle, fatherly and wonderfully mellifluous tone, makes a strong case for pursuing whatever activity […]

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Science Fiction Plausibility & The Donnie Darko Effect

Science Fiction Plausibility & The Donnie Darko Effect

Simon September 29, 2012 5

My eldest daughter and I recently rented the film Source Code, a fast-paced time-slip / alternative-reality action thriller in which an US army pilot, played by Jake Gyllenhaal, awakens on a […]

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Why do we like Music? - Part 2 - Answer: Fractals?

Why do we like Music? – Part 2 – Answer: Fractals?

Simon September 16, 2012 2

In part 1 of this essay, we looked briefly at the history of music and at possible explanations for its universal appeal.  Today, I want to discuss three recent pieces of […]

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Why do we like music? – Part 1

Simon September 9, 2012 2

Music seems to have a been a part of human culture since the beginning of culture itself. Earlier this year, researchers excavating caves in southern Germany found ancient flutes carved […]

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