Happy Valentines Day!
In the sense that St Valentine is the patron saint of bee keepers, epileptics and the plague, I mean.
He wasn't looking too hot when I saw him in Rome the other year.
Spent the day mainly catching up on missed tutorials and trying to get ready for the new module that starts tomorrow (I blew all of Reading Week on writing the essay).
Some interesting things I found along the way:
1. The Grand Mosque of Mopti, Mali, is very beautiful and unusual.
2. Equality for Animals? by Peter Singer is scorchio.
3. Overflowing landfills, unwanted humans, and a new anthropology of waste - of interest to anyone who's ever bought food from a supermarket, renovated a house or done any cheeky skip-diving.
4. A timeline of the invention of plastic
5. A man lost his wallet in Antarctica in 1967 and somebody found it and got it back to him in 53 years later.
6. 2020 - the year of the asterisk (really looking forward to exploring this blog, it looks fantastic)
7. 30 Days Wild (academic paper) and enrolment form - game on for June!
9. The BuzzFeedification of Mental Health
10. And Jeremy Bentham seems like a nice guy:
"Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you, --will invite you to add something to the pleasure of others, --or to diminish something of their pains. And for every grain of enjoyment you sow in the bosom of another, you shall find a harvest in your own bosom, --while every sorrow which you pluck out from the thoughts and feelings of a fellow creature shall be replaced by beautiful flowers of peace and joy in the sanctuary of your soul."
Great, except the Auto-Icon thing is a bit weird. Jezza pictured here, in two parts, also not looking too hot:
I'm quite glad relics have gone out of fashion.
Today's Photo: All Ready For Module Four (So, You Want To Be A Vegetarian?)
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