Noel O'HareReading good literature can change your life for better or worse‘Good’ literature can be dangerous and unhealthy stuff. When Goethe published The Sorrows of Young Werther in 1774 it’s said to have…Feb 14Feb 14
Noel O'HareWill Taylor Swift be still packing stadiums in her 80s ?Taylor Swift is a unique phenomenon. A songwriter of genius, a brilliant performer with an extraordinary ability to inspire cult-like…Feb 12Feb 12
Noel O'HareBad writers are laughing all the way to the bankYou’ve heard it a thousand times. Writers must learn their craft, hone their skills before they have any hope of success. After all, that’s…Jan 31Jan 31
Noel O'HareinThink HealthDo you really know all you need to how about your nose ?In Nikolai Gogol’s famous story, ‘The Nose’, a St Petersburg civil servant wakes up one morning to discover his nose has disappeared, ‘to…Jan 29Jan 29
Noel O'HareinThink HealthTalk to the HandFor 14 years New Zealander Clint Hallam lived without a right hand. Then one morning in 1998 he woke up and there it was again. Of course…Jan 28Jan 28
Noel O'HareHow Airbnb became another unloved behemoth like FacebookIt was 40 degrees that day in Melbourne. We’d rented an Airbnb five minutes walk from South Yarra station. Now it seemed longer. The…Jan 27Jan 27
Noel O'HareinThink HealthMagnets for what ails you ?Feeling out of sorts? You could put it down to ‘Magnetic Field Deficiency Syndrome’. Headaches, back and neck pains, insomnia, heaviness…Jan 26Jan 26
Noel O'HareinThink HealthKeep In TouchThere’s a deep irony in the fact that we have never been more connected and never more out of touch. Email and social media make us…Jan 26Jan 26
Noel O'HareinThink HealthWe Need to Take Back Your Own Sweet TimeIn 1959, cardiologists Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenman first used the label ‘Type A Personality’ to describe the pathologically impatient…Jan 261Jan 261