• What we talk about when we talk about giving up – podcast

    We give things up when we believe we can change; we give up when we believe we can’t. By Adam Phillips Continue reading

  • Derry needs to ‘talk up our strengths rather than talking down the place’ says MLA

    Local MLAs agreed on the need for positivity but also spoke of a requirement for ‘honesty’ when it came to regional imbalance. "From a north-west perspective, we have seen at first hand how business and education leaders, politicians and agencies working together can deliver real change on the ground. "It also means talking up our offering and our strengths rather than talking down the place that we want to see prosper,” said Mr. Middleton, after he tabled a motion that called on the Economy...

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    Transfer Talk: Bayern open Musiala talks as City, Liverpool circle

    Bayern Munich are keen to secure a new deal for winger Jamal Musiala amid interest from Manchester City and Liverpool. Transfer Talk has the latest.

  • Sydney Sweeney is elegant in maxi black gown as she cozies up to Drew Barrymore and talks her love of horror during appearance on the talk show

    Sydney Sweeney showed off her elegant style while appearing on the latest episode of the Drew Barrymore Show.

  • Let's Talk About Politics and Religion

    You may have grown up hearing the famous warning that there are two things to never discuss over the dinner table: politics and religion. If you grew up in a Christian household, discussing faith was unavoidable, but you may have been raised to steer away from discussing politics, much less getting involved in politics and engaging civically. After all, being a Christian and engaging in politics must be mixing church and state. That is an evil thing—don't you know? Many of us look at...

  • Inbox: It certainly has everyone talking

    Patrick from Coppell, TX Greetings from Texas, Wes! I am curious what your thoughts are on the new kickoff format. I haven't watched any XFL so I do not know how the new rules will impact the Packers and Keisean Nixon (favorably or unfavorably). GB had one of the best kick returners last year, and for some unexplained reason, I think he will have his best year yet in this new framework. It certainly has everyone talking. I understand the Packers’ reservations about doing this one-year trial...

  • Quantum talk with magnetic disks

    Quantum computers promise to tackle some of the most challenging problems facing humanity today. While much attention has been directed towards the computation of quantum information, the transduction of information within quantum networks is equally crucial in materializing the potential of this new technology.

  • Book Talk: Lockhart, ‘We Were Liars’

    The Sinclair family is different. It is part of the American oligarchy. The lives of the family members typify “old money,” steeped in tradition, isolated from the drudgery that accompanies life’s problems. Except. Well, except for the accident.Emily Lockhart introduces the characters in “We Were Liars” (2014, 250 pages in paperback format, plus end notes and a preview of “Genuine Fraud”) with this:“Welcome to the beautiful Sinclair family.

  • EVERYONE'S TALKING ABOUT: The new cockneys

    I hope you've remembered it's The Modern Cockney Festival this month (1-31 March).

  • Book Talk: Levine, ‘Kill All the Lawyers’

    “Kill All the Lawyers” (2006, 352 pages) is the third offering in Paul Levine’s “Solomon vs. Lord” series, possibly a homage to the 1985-89 TV series “Moonlighting.” As in the previous two books, law partners Steve Solomon (marginally Jewish, a graduate in the top twenty percent of the bottom one-third of his class in a Florida law school, and a lawyer who passed the Bar Exam on his third attempt) and Victoria Lord (possibly Episcopalian-Presbyterian, maybe shoe-in for membership in the DAR,...

  • Let's Talk About the Absolute Worst Thing in the World

    “We don’t want no two states! We want all of ’48!” Stanford students chanted last week, a call for genocide against Israeli Jews and the establishment of a single Muslim state from the river to the sea, as they say.

  • Let's talk about the officiating in the WVU-Iowa game

    The West Virginia University women’s basketball team came very close on Monday night to beating top seed Iowa and advancing to the Sweet Sixteen of the NCAA Tournament. It was a dogged performance by the Mountaineers on a prominent national stage and the conclusion of a remarkable season by first year head coach Mark Kellogg.