Children ask why the sea is salty, and the standard answer — rivers carry salt into it and evaporation leaves the salt behind — is correct as far as it…
Scripts are usually classified by what a single character represents: a sound, a syllable, a consonant, or a whole word. Almost every design choice below follows from that decision. Here…
What makes a canal worth travelling is that it goes somewhere slowly and levelly, through country that roads avoid. Here are fifteen worth a few days.
1. The Canal du…
The single variable that determines everything is whether you can legally and practically leave the airport, and that needs establishing before you are standing in a transit corridor wondering. Here…
The pattern across these is that something edible does the work a fork would do, and the food is built around that. Here are sixteen dishes where hands are the…
Two kinds of place are worth visiting: working research sites at altitude, and historic instruments in cities that show how the work was done before electronics. Here are eleven of…