None of this involves asking anybody anything or going anywhere in particular. It is a set of things to notice, and they are all available within a short walk of…
The distinction worth holding is between measuring and comparing. A ruler asserts a length and can be wrong about it. The instruments below compare one thing against another, or against…
The organising idea is that none of these were grown to be eaten. Each is a plant storing resources to survive a dormant season, and every culinary property follows from…
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For American kids growing up in the 1980s, Saturday morning was the best few hours of the week. After five days of school, it was a stretch of…
Every lake island is either something that was already there, something that grew, or something somebody built. Which one it is determines everything about the place. Here are fifteen.
1.…
Almost everything strange about smell follows from two facts: it is chemistry rather than physics, and it takes an unusually direct route into the brain. Here are twelve consequences.
1.…