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Richard Smith: How to start the day

Posted on September 18, 2012 by BMJ

It is a bold and foolish person who advises others how to live, but I can’t resist a little advice. I’m not going to tell you how to be smarter, sexier, stronger, or richer (as I have no idea) but rather how to start the day. My advice is simple: 90 minutes reading good books. […]

Liz Wager’s X and Y confusion

Posted on January 7, 2009July 29, 2014 by BMJ

Oxford University Press has produced new materials for primary schools aimed at encouraging boys to read. I’m not qualified even to start pondering the biosocial reasons why young boys apparently read less well than girls in British schools – but I was amused by the name of this initiative. It’s called Project X …. […]