a dog hanging his head out of a car window

Ever watched a dog hanging his head out of a car window? I think he is off his nut. Tripping out on sensory overload.

A dog's nose is approximately a hundred thousand to a million times more sensitive than a human's". The environment is filled with an endlessly changing kaleidoscope of scents that is fascinating to a dog at the best of times. Imagine it being blasted up both nostrils at fifty miles an hour.

The man who cut my wife and the man who poisoned her

My wife had breast cancer. It had got into the lymph nodes and come within three millimetres of the chest wall when Burton took a knife to her and cut her breast off.

100 million garden projects

We drove over a saddle and looked down on the valley. A hundred and twenty years ago it was thick forest and swamps. Now it is rolling farmland, with wind-breaks and fences and drains and irrigation and flood control and roads and towns. Have you ever built a landscape feature in the garden: a wall, a terrace, a path? How much effort did that take? Now look at the place you live in. With your little project as one unit of effort, how many units can you see?

Disorders are adaptive

There has been recent research suggesting that the attributes of good corporate leaders and those of psychopaths are very similar.

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