Which makes you sicker? Swine flu and its attendant brouhaha? Or the monster operations that make swine ’flu the least of our worries?
Photo stolen from John Gribbin, but it's going around. Like the ’flu.
A brief piece on page 183 of the latest D+C, a publication from Germany's Development and Cooperation agency caught my eye. Reporting on the first meeting of G8 agriculture ministers, last April, it noted the disappointment of civil-society organizations.1 “Whilst...
It is so easy to keep doing nothing when you’ve been doing nothing for a month or so. This inactivity has to stop, and today is as good a day as any.
I’ve always enjoyed playing with ferments, and used to make yoghurt in a curious contraption with little hexagonal glass pots and a double-walled al...
Which makes you sicker? Swine flu and its attendant brouhaha? Or the monster operations that make swine ’flu the least of our worries?
Photo stolen from John Gribbin, but it's going around. Like the ’flu.
The Kellogg Company just announced that it will donate one full day’s cereal production to something called the Feeding America food bank network. Good for them. What staggered me was not the fact of Kellogg’s generosity but the size of it. A day’s cereal production is 3.5 million pounds, or 1,5...
What with The Wire done and dusted and an occasional hole in our evening entertainment, I sought out Burn Notice and we gave it a little watch. It’s likable enough escapist nonsense (although I figured out who done it and why for the pilot pretty quickly) and could grow on one. But one thing is...
