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I wanted to write something else, but haven’t finished doing the homework.
The Economist's Green View has a fascinating piece that offers a fascinating by-catch from Copenhagen: reduced fishing. Globally, fishing is a disaster.
Landlubbers hand po...
I went to an event billed as an “Aperitivo biodiverso”, upstairs at a very fashionable winebar in the heart of fashionable Rome. Laid on by an NGO that works with indigenous people in Ecuador and Peru, it was full. Three young women at a table took my 10 euro contribution. I fought my way through to...
If you're a fan of Gary Trudeau's Doonesbury and not a gardener, then you probably saw these strips earlier this month and maybe chuckled.
If you're a gardener and not a fan of Gary Trudeau's Doonesbury then you probably didn't see these strips.
But if you're a fan of Gary Trudeau's Do...
Maybe Grant McCracken is right. Maybe a new set of adverts for Levi's that use the words (and voice!) of Walt Whitman do show that “[a]dvertising has taken up what Whitman thought was the poet's job”. McCracken explains:
I think it is thrilling to see these meanings circulating in our culture,...
Start: 95.4 Last week: 88.9 This week: 87.0
Did I really dump almost 2kg in a week? Yes. But it's not quite what you think.
I've been putting off an absolutely routine, age-related procedure for almost a whole year now, put off myself by the necessary preparation and fear of the unknown. Everything I read, and there's lots of it, seems to me to be unnecessarily coy about the whole thing. So OK, I know not to drink red juice after the sluice-out, apparently because it can be mistaken for blood. But what to expect of the sluice-out itself? Stay near a toilet and have something to read aren't all that informative. Knowledge is power, and reassurance, and preparedness, and all that, so here's the guide to:
