Jen Harvey

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Random thoughts and ramblings on no particular theme.

  • The Cirrhosis Society.

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    Nigel’s face was pockmarked and ashen. Yellowed with sickness and decay. You could see in his eyes that he never stood a chance. That he was never going to make it. When he died there was a sense of inevitability, perhaps relief, about it all. Somewhere beneath the purple blotchiness of Toni’s face, beneath the

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  • The coming of age of the climate change debate?

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    Communicating climate change has never been easy. Scientific observations of gaping holes in the ozone layer, melting polar ice-caps, increasing global temperatures, extreme weather conditions, coral bleaching, species extinction … all may command the news headlines for a brief dramatic instant, but the strange fact remains that, on the whole, dire warnings as to the

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  • Flickr Females

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    The Sunday Times recently ran an article concerning the phenomenon of female self-portraiture on Flickr. As a female user of the website, I was interested to read of the controversy that has arisen with regards to women voluntarily posting revealing portraits of themselves on the site. The debate centres largely on the age old issue

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