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Marina Gerner, freelance feature writer & critic

Read a selection of features, columns and reviews:

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The Economist’s 1843: The malleability of our minds

Posted on January 2, 2019November 16, 2020 by marinagerner

A new show about consciousness takes a terrifying look at how scientists, philosophers and artists deal with “the hard problem”… Read more The Economist’s 1843: The malleability of our minds

The Sunday Times’ Raconteur: Rise of the robot mediator

Posted on November 1, 2018November 16, 2020 by marinagerner

Jonathan Verk, co-founder of coParenter, has first-hand experience of a bruising marriage break-up. “Six years ago, I started going through… Read more The Sunday Times’ Raconteur: Rise of the robot mediator

Money Observer: Barclays’ impact fund is a first for a bank – but should it be investing in military aircraft?

Posted on December 11, 2017February 7, 2019 by marinagerner

In September, Barclays announced the launch of the Multi-Impact Growth Fund, the first impact fund to be launched by a… Read more Money Observer: Barclays’ impact fund is a first for a bank – but should it be investing in military aircraft?

Money Observer: How to measure the social impact of investments

Posted on September 21, 2017February 7, 2019 by marinagerner

People who invest in socially responsible funds can easily find out how their portfolios have performed financially, but historically it… Read more Money Observer: How to measure the social impact of investments

Money Observer: How do women invest?

Posted on April 11, 2016February 7, 2019 by marinagerner

Judging by the increasing amount of gender-specific investor research, the financial services industry has woken up to the realisation that… Read more Money Observer: How do women invest?

Philosophy Now Magazine: What did Mary know?

Posted on November 1, 2013February 7, 2019 by marinagerner

Imagine a girl called Mary. She is a brilliant neuroscientist and a world expert on colour vision. But because she… Read more Philosophy Now Magazine: What did Mary know?

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Some poetry while you’re here

In a crowded London shop
An open book and empty cup
On the marble table-top.
While on the shop and street I gazed
My body of a sudden blazed;
And twenty minutes more or less It seemed, so great my happiness,
That I was blessed and could bless.

– W.B. Yeats

How dreary – to be – Sombody!
How public – like a Frog –
To tell one’s name – the livelong June –
To an admiring Bog!

– Emily Dickinson

At lunchtime I bought a huge orange—
The size of it made us all laugh.
I peeled it and shared it with Robert and Dave—
They got quarters and I had a half.

– Wendy Cope

Always to shine,
to shine everywhere,
to the very deeps of the last days,
to shine—
and to hell with everything else!
That is my motto—
and the sun’s!

– Vladimir Mayakovsky

Can it pull extraordinary faces?
Is it usually sick on a swing?
Does it spend all its time at the races,
or fiddling with pieces of string?
Has it views of its own about money?
Does it think patriotism enough?
Are its stories vulgar but funny?
O tell me the truth about love.

– WH Auden

I used to think all poets were Byronic-
Mad, bad and dangerous to know.
And then I met a few. Yes it’s ironic-
I used to think all poets were Byronic.
They’re mostly wicked as a ginless tonic
And wild as pension plans.

– Wendy Cope again

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Marina Gerner, Journalist and Critic

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