It looks like the least interesting substance in the garden. Here are seventeen things it is doing.
1. Half of It Is Not There
Good soil is roughly half solid…
One fruit, several products, and two distinct sensations that most people assume are the same thing. Here are fifteen.
1. It Is a Dried Fruit
Peppercorns are the fruit of…
There is a habit of describing sea organisms using land vocabulary, and it causes a persistent misunderstanding about seaweed.
The words used — root, stem, leaf — describe a land…
There is a description of this process that everybody learns and that understates it substantially.
The description is that a tadpole grows legs, loses its tail and becomes a frog…
Prints deteriorate through several separate processes, some driven by light, some by chemistry and some by whatever they were stored in. Here are fifteen.
1. Colour Prints Are Made of…
Every surface in a home collects the same grey film, and it is a record of everything that has been shed, tracked in or blown through recently. Here are fifteen…