Robert Darby

@RobDarbyCanberr

Independent scholar and freelance writer

Canberra, Australia
Joined August 2015

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  1. Jan 3

    Lovely essay on Shelley - eg on his Queen Mab: "the extensive notes are effectively a primer in progressive Enlightenment thought, while the poem they annotate is a swimming phantasmagoria of fairies and spirits and magic moving cars" via

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  2. Jan 3
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  3. Jan 3

    Happy birthday to an imaginative genius who brought delight and pleasure to millions. And what a gorgeous hobbity garden, even with hollyhocks! Could almost be Bag End.

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  4. Jan 3

    Cassin played an important role, but the author of the first draft of the UDHR was the Canadian lawyer John Humphrey:

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  5. Jan 2

    This is truly astounding. All that dark blue is the basis for most of Australia's prosperity over the past 20 years.

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  6. Jan 2
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  7. Jan 2

    The problem with meta-analyses and systematic reviews: "a meta-analysis is a mathematical method for combining data, which is weighted by the quantity but not the quality of the observations."

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  8. Jan 2

    Speaking of Saki, here is his unreconstructed view on the nature/nurture debate, and the inventiveness of boys

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  9. Jan 2

    Consider this superbly surreal non-sequitur: “On the shore, a bat, or possibly an umbrella, disengaged itself from the shrubbery, causing those nearby to recollect the miseries of childhood.”

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  10. Jan 2

    I had never heard of this chap, but the moment I read that he was a fan of Saki I understood why his strange literary & artistic works seemed so familiar.

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  11. Jan 2

    In New Guinea Banbanam involves being secretly pleased that a rival village’s feast has been rained off because their Weather Magician’s spell failed.

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  12. Jan 2

    Aust Rationalist Society "rejects all non-consensual, medically unnecessary genital cutting and calls upon the medical community and to educate the public of the harms of these procedures":

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  13. 29 Dec 2018

    This is a phenomenal piece of research, showing how easy it is for a band of committed ideologues to distort the medical literature on a controversial topic such as .

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  14. 29 Dec 2018

    Some correct advice from doctor from a non-circumcising culture. Why are American medical practitioners so woefully ignorant - they seem to be living back in the Edwardian era. More detailed advice here:

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  15. 28 Dec 2018

    Need to treat positive results from clinical trials with a degree of scepticism: if they look too good to be true they probably are.

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  16. 28 Dec 2018

    This was never a passenger railway, but used to haul shale oil from an elaborate industrial site in the Wolgan Valley, near Newnes, NSW Now a popular camping spot..

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  17. 28 Dec 2018

    Jan Heweliusz (aka Johannes Hevelius) lived in Gdansk (formerly Danzig) & produced first comprehensive atlas of the moon. Why do so many great astronomers come from that part of the world? via

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  18. 27 Dec 2018

    Thorough expose of the corruption of the medical literature on a controversial or polarised issue such as : essential reading

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  19. 27 Dec 2018

    Germany's second shameful betrayal of the interests of children: first a law establishing the legality of circumcision; now it seems that child marriage will be permitted

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  20. 27 Dec 2018

    To be able to write forceful, elegant English is a way for everybody to become empowered via

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