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What made the old barber shop different from anywhere else was that nobody had an appointment, so everybody waited together, and the waiting was most of the experience. Here…
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The useful question about any unusual shoe is what it was standing on. Almost every answer is a property of the ground rather than a preference of the wearer. Here…
The useful thing to look at in any harbour is the wall - which direction it faces, how high it stands and where the entrance is - because that tells…
Look at any vernacular building and the roof tells you the weather before anybody mentions it. Here are eleven of the things a roof is arguing with.
1. The Steep…
The technical term for this is path dependence: an early decision constrains everything afterwards, not because it was right but because too much was built on top of it. Here…
Almost nothing in the animal world does what this does.
A great many animals signal. They warn, threaten, court and call, and the signal refers to the here and now…