With Rainy Days Come Reading Lists.
There is nothing like the sound of hail slamming against your window and jolting you awake, to make you realise that we’ve reached rainy season here…
Read articleScience, Literature, and the Nature of Happiness
Here’s a question for you Terry readers: What makes us happy? Well? Maybe it’s obvious to you. But I think it’s not always as easy as…
Read articleMicrobes as glass sculptures: in a word, beautiful.
Dear Luke, I just saw a photo of your glass sculpture of HIV. I can’t stop looking at it. Knowing that millions of those guys are…
Read articleHelp! I think I have a bad case of travel fever.
I love love love travel. I love the details: stamps in my passport, picking the book I’m going to read on the plane, and planning my…
Read articleJoie de vivre, and the art of living fabulously (or an ingredient list to creating social change)
Terry readers, I’ve been bursting to tell you a story all weekend. (And I’m home sick today, which just goes to show you should never let…
Read articleOh Michael Pollan, you’ve done it again.
For ages, listed under “interests” in my Facebook profile has been “learning to cook (recipes anyone?)”. I wrote it in when I was first learning to…
Read articleFearless Interdisciplinarity: What Coke Studio and TEDx Terry Talks 2009 have in common
Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about why I love Terry*. After much reflection, I realised that while the extraordinary Speaker Series and wonderful writing on…
Read articleTelling Other People Exactly what You Think: A Tip Sheet to Make Your Online Commentary Really Count
These are scary times. Without asking your permission, Muslims are daring to write articles, create films, develop radio programs, and produce art that unabashedly celebrates the…
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The Kind of Random Chat I’m Always Glad To Have.
By Shagufta Pasta,
When your involvement is very visible and public, it is easy to consider the work that you do to be momentous. Important. To think of yourself…
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