The Only True Ghost: Scepticism and the Enfield Poltergeist.
The word “poltergeist” is taken from the German for “noisy spirit,” and it is characteristically impossible to ignore these troublesome …
Tag Archives: Education
Teacher Boy.
Tourist Review (11): The Newly-Reopened National Museum of Scotland.
Sometime back in 2010, Tychy reflected on the ongoing three-year, £46 million refurbishment of the National Museum of Scotland: Refurbishment …
Tychy@ the Fringe: First Light.
Murray Watts‘ “First Light,” which is presently playing at Hawke and Hunter, ostensibly spends a night with the chaplain of …
Tychy@ the Fringe: E.A. Poe… Into the Mind of Madness.
American High School Theater Festival visit the Fringe every year, circling their wagons at Pollock Halls and appropriating the Pilrig …
Tourist Review (10): The NASA Lunar Sample.
Our Dynamic Earth is “an amazing adventure” and “an interactive journey” which they keep in a big tent around the …
Rolling on with the Bull.
For the first two weeks of the summer, Sighthill Academy puts aside its daily troubles and the whole school embarks …
Book Review: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
[The following was originally written as a contribution to MANSIZE - Tychy’s English Literature support series for GCSE and Higher …
An Idle Comparison of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road and Emma Donoghue’s Room.
[The following contains plot spoilers.] When reflecting upon the making of her Booker Prize nominated bestseller Room (2010) for the …
Alain de Botton: Another Point of View.
Pontificating about pontificating is a deplorable habit in any website; and the millionaire self-help “philosopher” Alain de Botton seems to …
Book Review: Emma Donoghue’s Room.
[The following contains plot spoilers.] If Toni Morrison’s Sethe cut her infant daughter’s throat with a handsaw to spare her …
The Devil On Your Back (7/7). The Concert.
[“The Devil On Your Back,” a ghost story for Christmas, is about 15000 words long, and it will be serialised …
The Devil On Your Back (6/7): The Church.
[“The Devil On Your Back,” a ghost story for Christmas, is about 15000 words long, and it will be serialised …
The Devil On Your Back (5/7).
[“The Devil On Your Back,” a ghost story for Christmas, is about 15000 words long, and it will be serialised …
The Devil On Your Back (4/7).
[“The Devil On Your Back,” a ghost story for Christmas, is about 15000 words long, and it will be serialised …
