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Richard Smith's non-medical blogs

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Month starting Posts
Nov 2022 17
Dec 2022 21
Jan 2023 19
Feb 2023 9
Mar 2023 7
Apr 2023 17
May 2023 12
Jun 2023 12
Jul 2023 19
Aug 2023 13
Sep 2023 7
Oct 2023 13
Nov 2023 14
Dec 2023 9
Jan 2024 13
Feb 2024 14
Mar 2024 13
Apr 2024 17
May 2024 13
Jun 2024 11
Jul 2024 11
Aug 2024 13
Sep 2024 16
Oct 2024 11
Nov 2024 10
Dec 2024 9
Jan 2025 4

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Most recent posts

Do only the rich fear death?
The peasants in Anton Chekhov’s novella Peasants published in 1897 live unremittingly grim lives. Impoverished, they sleep on the floor in huts and are hungry, cold, and illiterate. The men drink heavily, increasing their poverty, …
On , by Richard Smith, 1,155 words
Is it right that to live a full, ethical, and healthy life we must construct the story of our life?
The neurologist and writer Oliver Sacks believed that each of us “constructs and lives a ‘narrative’ [and] this narrative is us.” The philosopher Marya Schechtman writes that a person “creates his identity by forming an …
On , by Richard Smith, 1,178 words
Iris Murdoch’s brutal summary of life in 125 words
Iris Murdoch (1919-1979) was a novelist and philosopher, but I fear that her novels are now little read. Famously, she did not like to be edited, and that dislike may be one of the reasons …
On , by Richard Smith, 261 words