The pattern across all of these is the same trade: more character, less predictability. What follows is what each category is actually like rather than how it photographs. Here are…
Almost every quirk of cooking with pulses follows from one fact: they are dried on purpose, so everything you do is a negotiation about putting water back. Here are fifteen.…
Almost everybody has experienced this, and almost nobody has considered how strange it is.
Sitting still in a vehicle, entirely uninjured, having eaten nothing unusual, a person becomes progressively unwell…
Before printing, every copy of every text was made by hand and therefore differed from every other copy. Almost everything below follows from that changing. Here are sixteen.
1. Paper…
The test is simple: pigment colour looks the same from every angle, and structural colour changes as you move. Once you know that, a great deal of the natural world…
Ask most people whether counting is natural and they will say obviously yes. Every culture counts. Children learn numbers early. It feels less like a skill than a faculty.
The…