Costa Rica’s President Luis Guillermo Solís swallows wasp.
Author: Richard Carter
A fat, bearded chap with a Charles Darwin fixation.
Cunning linguistics
A conversation with Jen about dwarfs.
Book review: ‘Hen's Teeth & Horse's Toes’ by Stephen Jay Gould
Science essays. The third of Stephen Jay Gould’s long-running series of popular science essay collections that first appeared in his monthly column in Natural History magazine, Hen's Teeth & Horse's Toes covers topics which include: evolutionary oddities (e.g. the eponymous horse's toes); evolutionary adaptations; essays on a number of scientists; the Piltdown Man forgery; science… Continue reading Book review: ‘Hen's Teeth & Horse's Toes’ by Stephen Jay Gould
Somebody buy the BBC a thesaurus
The BBC struggles to describe the late General Manuel Antonio Noriega.
Book review: ‘The Gallows Pole’ by Benjamin Myers
18th-century Yorkshire meets the Sopranos: intrigue, betrayal, murder, and revenge in the Calder Valley.
Book review: ‘On Photography’ by Susan Sontag
Wonderful insights marred by pretentious language. I first encountered the late Susan Sontag on the much-missed, long-defunct late-night BBC 2 Arts programme The Late Show. Sontag was being interviewed by a clearly besotted Michael Ignatieff. She came across as a fascinating and charming intellectual with plenty of interesting stuff to say. Ever since, as a… Continue reading Book review: ‘On Photography’ by Susan Sontag
Millie
A video of Stense's dog going walkies.
Wearenotamused
I woke up this morning to find one of Carolyn's random text-message queries awaiting me.
Rare treat
Just about the only benefit of spending hundreds of hours chasing your farmer friend's cattle across field and moor is that, every once in a while, you get to eat your arch-nemesis.
First in line
Trump puts EU ahead of Britain total non-shock!