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"If you were standing on the edge of a cliff, you might go over the edge and suffer consequences that would probably b…"

"Today's world is truly bizarre. The emperor's new clothes are constantly admired although many can see that he is sta…"

"For creativity to flourish, it does not necessarily need encouragement. Indeed, since its origins are not understood …"

"In the 1960s, IBM's chairman, Thomas Watson Sr., began the Fellows Program, in which he appointed Fellows (he called …"

"On the atomic scale, we do not understand gravity and its relationship with Nature's other forces. At the other end o…"

"The more I thought about it, the more obsessed I became with the idea of a swimming journey. I started to dream ever …"

"From water level, I observed the mating joined in flight like refuelling aircraft, and the random progress of the clo…"

"It is through trees that we see and hear the wind: woodland people can tell the species of a tree from the sound it m…"

"Waterlog (1999), Roger's now-classic account of swimming through Britain, published twenty years ago this year, opens…"