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‘Don’t worry, I won’t kill you’: inside the world of homeless tourism

Featuredby Clare MG

From Prague to Los Angeles, tours led by homeless people are revealing the dark side of the city. But do they hurt the very people they aim to help?

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Portfolio, Writing
Wivenhoe Park Landscape, John Constable

The Cloud Appreciation Society’s chief cloud-spotter

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Gavin Pretor-Pinney’s silver linings playbook

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Portfolio, Writing

Love lockdown

May 29, 2016by Clare MG Leave a comment

Despite the graffiti and the locks, Ponte Milvio itself seemed no worse for wear. If Garibaldi couldn’t destroy it, then how could something as innocent as love?

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Portfolio, Uncategorized, Writing

Journeys in Literature: Alice Munro’s Dance of the Happy Shades

Featuredby Clare MG

Like Alice Munro, my grandmother came from small-town Ontario, and my memories chime with Munro’s tales of passionate girls and women with stifled passions

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Portfolio, Uncategorized, Writing

Behind the Olympics: The Spectacle of all Spectacles

February 10, 2014by Clare MG

Technology and elaborate storytelling have made opening and closing ceremonies increasingly grand. After the mind-blowing extravaganzas of Beijing, Vancouver and London, can Sochi go to new levels?

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Portfolio, Writing
Little Buddhas on a rock, Korean monastery

Seoul Searching

Featuredby Clare MG

Zen and the city … a journey through modern Korea

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Portfolio, Writing

Particle Politics: Inside the World’s Leading Physics Facility

Featuredby Clare MG

The ‘E’ in Cern, home of the large hadron collider, used to stand for Europe. But with ambitious new global plans, which nations will call the shots to explore the secrets of the universe?

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Portfolio, Writing
Urban fox graffiti

Red Fox in the Neon Light

Featuredby Clare MG

An ode to London’s native wildlife

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Portfolio, Writing

Bringing Home the Bison

December 30, 2012by Clare MG

Meet bison whisperer Wes Olson, who reintroduced a dying breed to the Prairies

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Portfolio, Writing

Food for Thought

October 13, 2011by Clare MG

Lab-grown meat is the way of the future, but if it will whet the palates of the public is another matter. One Italian scientists is try to make test tube meat a bit more appetising

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Portfolio, Writing

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