Worth a Minute

Inspired by Krista Tippett’s assertion that there is something redemptive and life-giving about asking better questions, Kenny Primrose, creator of 'The Examined Life' Podcast, selects his best ever question.

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Mike's best ever ‘Dance Your Own Steps’ movie is Baz Luhrmann’s 1992 romantic comedy, ‘Strictly Ballroom’.

Not only does the plot celebrate individual creativity and personal convictions, the film-making deliberately breaks barriers and is extravagantly entertaining.

Ultimately, though, it also inspires, with its core message of ‘a life lived in fear is a life half-lived’ being epitomised by the lead character’s father finally breaking the shackles imposed on his own creativity to initiate the brilliant Paso Doble finale!

It is truly a movie that dances all its own steps!

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Mike's best ever anagrammatic poem is David Shulman’s sonnet, ‘Washington Crossing the Delaware’, inspired by Emanuel Leutze’s famous painting of the same name.

Every line is an anagram of the painting’s title and yet the poem still works, even managing to include specialist, key references to the historical incident, including 'Redcoats', 'Continentals' and 'Hessian'!

The best place to read the poem is on Wikipedia where you can watch an animation in which the letters beautifully circulate into new positions as each new line is displayed!

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Dave Elder contributes a second episode to the ‘Worth a Minute’ podcast, on this occasion selecting his best ever compound noun.

German, with its unwavering determination to exploit any and all word combinations, was inevitably a strong contender to provide Dave’s favourite word produced from other words.

In the end, though - despite strong competition from Spanish, Finnish and Icelandic - a Welsh word (literally meaning ‘pinging bakehouse’) won the day!

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Mike reviews the interesting history of anagrams, including the appointment by Louis XIII of a Royal Anagrammatist, Walter Begley’s Anagrammatic Bible and Galileo’s deliberately scrambled message to Johannes Kepler.

Despite loving the fact that ‘A Decimal Point’ turns into ‘I'm a Dot in Place’, Mike plumps for a different option when selecting his best ever anagram and provides a numerical justification for his choice!

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Mike likes the way that Roman emperor, Marcus Aurelius, wrote ‘to himself’ in his ‘Meditations’ as Mike often puts things down on paper for his own benefit, hoping that it will help him to work out his view on a matter!

Very often simple and succinct, the philosopher emperor’s observations and comments are thought provoking and memorable, including the following:

“If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it.”

“Our life is what our thoughts make it.”

“The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.”

However, Mike’s best ever nugget from Marcus Aurelius is a statement that is centuries ahead of its time in its profound environmental significance:

“That which is not good for the beehive cannot be good for the bees.”

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Mike’s best ever abseil is the seventeen metre descent from the Inaccessible Pinnacle on Skye, purely because it meant that he didn’t have to revisit the mountain’s ‘knife-edged ridge’, which has been described as having 'an overhanging and infinite drop on one side, and a drop on the other side even steeper and longer'!

If, however, you feel somewhat short changed by this risk averse celebration, look up Mike’s best ever YouTube video, which shows Danny MacAskill taking Munro bagging to a whole new level as he scales the In Pinn, without being roped up, while carrying his mountain bike!

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It may seem odd that Mike has a ‘best ever poem for dark times', but his argument is that if a poem captures the intensity of emotions and conveys those feelings in a striking manner, it can impel us to reflect in a new way on our circumstances.

The achievement of Gerard Manley Hopkins in ‘No worst, there is none.’ is to explore and probe - within the fourteen-line constraints of a sonnet - the depths of human depression through language, sounds and imagery.

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The prompt for Mike to think about his best ever crossword clue was his brother-in-law’s use of ‘H I J K L M N 0’ (5 letters) as a bit of a party piece.

Mike’s penchant for puns and his enjoyment of the absurd led him to consider seriously the following contenders:

‘Fail to understand decimals correctly?’ (4, 3, 5)

‘Amundsen’s forwarding address’ (4)

‘Bar of Soap’ (6, 6)

Ultimately, however, nothing could eclipse the joyous simplicity of ‘Gegs’! (9, 4)

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Mike’s best ever school project is the Youth and Philanthropy Initiative, which gives Scottish young people the opportunity to champion a local charity.

Requiring pupils to work closely with local charities, this inspirational activity not only helps young pupil to develop teamwork, research and presentation skills, it also gives them the opportunity to make a real difference by winning a £3,000 grant for their chosen charity.

So far, YPI has enabled more than 270,000 young Scots to be involved in the transformational distribution of six million pounds across local communities.

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