There is a category of everyday observation that everybody has seen and that turns out to have no settled explanation, and moths around a light are among the clearest examples.…
Maya Linton
There is an image that makes most people wince the first time they see it: a hammer driving nails into a horse's foot.
The reaction is reasonable, and it rests…
There is a small object that lines a great many old roads and is almost never looked at: a short stone or cast-iron post at the verge, carrying a name…
There is a type of building standing in fields, farmyards and the grounds of old houses that most people pass without knowing what it was for.
It is frequently round…
There is a question about weathervanes that catches almost everybody out, and it concerns which way the pointer faces.
The natural assumption is that the arrow shows where the wind…
A base-and-radiate trip has a different rhythm from a moving one, and it rewards a different set of decisions. Here are ten.
1. The Base Matters More Than the Room…