Fancy going to a circus teacher on Thursday?
Author: Richard Carter
A fat, bearded chap with a Charles Darwin fixation.
Vive l’empire!
Things are going to be so much better when we (finally) ditch the so-called ‘EU’ and start dealing with our former colonies.
Cosmological conversation with my dad
Re. the distance to the sun.
What I did on my holidays
A timelapse video.
Book review: ‘Show Your Work’ by Austin Kleon
10 ways to share your creativity and get discovered.
Book review: ‘Improbable Destinies’ by Jonathan Losos
How predictable is evolution?
Pineapples and porcupines…
A prickly pair.
Reaching out
I'll tell you what's mildly irritating: people who say ‘reached out to’ when they mean ‘contacted’.
Book review: ‘In the Artist’s Garden’ by Ronald Blythe
Book 9 in the Wormingford series.
Book review: ‘For the Time Being’ by Annie Dillard
Strange essay collection that doesn't quite work. I read this book immediately after reading Annie Dillard's essay collections Teaching a Stone to Talk and The Abundance. I was hopeful that I would enjoy this book as it was the original source of one of my favourite essays from The Abundance. Unfortunately, I struggled a great… Continue reading Book review: ‘For the Time Being’ by Annie Dillard