The best part about walking the Aurelian Walls is that one is on foot. Porta Maggiore is a scary nightmare of about 8 lanes of traffic (lanes being a completely inappropriate description, because it denotes a certain measure of order) going in four or five different directions. I had driven throug...
Because he pointed me to this video.
And now I'm being sucked into a vortex of appalling “scientific” music videos. Alas, the “making” video to accompany that wonderful effort above doesn’t give any of the details I truly want. Are those all employees of the company? How many have PhDs. Is it...
Hey, New Scientist! Yes, you, Roger Highfield, if your ego-trawl is working. This is how you correct a mistake that someone who writes for you made:
Correction: January 29, 2009
An article on Saturday about the book “The Other Side of Desire: Four Journeys Into the Far Realms of Lust and Lo...
Time passes, other things (cheese!) happen. Life gets hectic. And What I Did Last Sunday becomes a little too constraining, because we're now two Sundays ago.
The first time I saw this archway, which leads up onto the Tangenziale Est, I almost burst out laughing. It is not part of the wall; that...
Just a couple of mozzarella balls,1 nothing much to blog about. Except for one tiny thing: I made them! At home! And it is all Barbara Kingsolver’s fault.
I may have given the impression that her book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle is not very good. That would be wrong. It has its faults, no do...
