How to start meditating – breathing one long breath. This is a recording which takes one minute to play. Use it to just check out how you are right now – one breath. Everyone should… Read More
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New proposed UWC group
Who – Sreela Gillams, Caroline Lodge The committee approves of setting up a new club What? – an ideas and philosophies group, focusing on ideas from all areas – sciences, the arts, psychology, medicine, travel… Read More
Data Breach, and Identity Theft
Making up passwords and passphrases I’m writing this because I was told that one of my rarely used websites uses a password that has been in a data breach. Now I have actually taught lessons… Read More
The Mind-Body link – 2
Physical Factors The way physical changes in the body occur in response to our thoughts, feelings and reactions is not fully understood. However, here are some possible mechanisms. When we are stressed, we release hormones,… Read More
New reading group page for UWC
I want to start with a non-fiction book (This is a part of my rehab – I have been doing some background work on Margaret Noble’s work in India.) I want to start with a… Read More
The mind-body link
When people go to hospital or visit their doctors it is often because of physical symptoms. For some physical problems the diagnosis and treatment is clear. For example, if you have a broken leg your… Read More
How AI teaches itself to ‘sound human’
Where does the Artificial Intelligence machinery learn from? Is it the same as what I knew to be ‘machine learning’? There was a team of engineers outside my office in the London Stock Exchange in… Read More
On the final departure of Queen Elizabeth II
Hearing the news was accidental. I could easily have missed it – I don’t listen to the news much. My son was sitting next to me – he got a message from a class friend… Read More
Anxiety, grief and loss – three responses
Many people are suffering from grief just now. Personally, an uncle has passed away. My aunt is naturally sounding lost and bereft. Personal grief somehow brings into focus what might be felt by those in… Read More
Why modern monks still revere a 19th century female british educationalist
More importantly, why would I be grateful to her too? What Miss Margaret Noble did was to start a school for young women in Kolkata at the behest of Swami Vivekananda, a monk of the… Read More