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…
Bitterness is the only taste that is universally rejected at first and widely sought out later, which makes it the most interesting of the five and the hardest to use…
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…
Sand seems like the least plausible thing to run short of. It is the archetype of abundance — the thing in the metaphor about counting grains, covering deserts and beaches…
The single most useful thing to know is that heat and flavour are independent. A very hot chilli can taste of almost nothing, and a mild one can carry an…
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…