I was momentarily distracted while listening to Lord Bragg on Women in Enlightment Science trying to recall whether I had ever seen the famed double-portrait of the Lavoisiers. So as soon as I got to the desktop I went looking, and I don't believe I had. My original intention had been to just ni...

The wonderful brouhaha over the idiocy at Cooks Source ¹ shows no signs of dying down. For new readers, a foolish editor at Cooks Source -- described by the Washington Post as “a formerly obscure food magazine based in Sunderland, Mass.” -- stole an article from the internet, offered a less th...

Friend Derek's website is so bleedin’ cool ¹ that I have to have this discussion on my own premises. I’m not even sure it’ll work, but here goes.

In a recent daily ² he notes that:

¢ 1 cosa non mi riCordo menTioned in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ... is the i...

I watched Jessica Jackley’s recently uploaded Tedtalk with growing bewilderment.

It was a wonderful story, or rather, set of stories. Jackley’s own story, of how Muhammad Yunus inspired her to set off to Africa and connect with people to whom she could lend money. Their stories too. And the stor...

I learn from [PLR News] http://www.plr.uk.com/allaboutplr/news/whatsNew.htm#211010 that part of my income is to be reduced by 15% over the next four years. So, what's 86% of about three bob?