Antipodes

I'm about to talk about a geographical entity, the valley of the River Bourne , which runs below my home place, Gamone . I assume you...

From time to time, we hear of publicity campaigns that get totally screwed up by current events even before they're launched... as disti...

In the wake of Barack Obama 's precisely-planned trip to Europe and his speech to a vast crowd on Kennedy territory in Berlin, were John...

Pif is basic dog ... in the same sense that the celebrated 2-horsepower Citroën used to be described as basic car . You get your money'...

It was particularly hot yesterday. Towards the end of the afternoon, when Pif had reluctantly gone home (after ten minutes of persuasion fr...

As I've pointed out already, French people can be intrigued when they hear me talk. I've got a slightly strange accent, which people...

People who are about to fall into a state of TV enthrallment during the Olympic Games might take a few minutes off to reflect upon what has ...

No sooner had I informed my friend Corina [the cultivated young lady who signs her perspicacious Antipodes comments as cm ] that I was co...

For a long time, I've been aware of the fact that my Antipodes blog is a relatively personal affair, which tackles a broad and heteroge...

Today is the launch date for a new search engine named Cuil , pronounced cool , built by former Google employees. [Click the image to access...

No, I'm not talking about dope, but rather about their skin color. In an interesting article in the newspaper Le Monde , a journalist ha...

Half an hour ago, I spotted this female roe deer and her two fawns on the other side of Gamone Creek. Earlier this afternoon, I heard a male...

Yesterday morning, I went out early to buy some food for the weekend, leaving Sophia inside the cool kitchen. When I returned to Gamone, I ...

During the years from 1882 until 1885, the painter Paul Cézanne [1839-1906] produced some 80 images of the giant Sainte-Victoire mountain ...

For fifteen years, TV viewers have glimpsed the devil, El Diablo , participating regularly, in a roadside fashion, in the Tour de France. Th...

Randy Pausch , a 47-year-old professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University, died yesterday of complications from pancreatic ca...

Everybody knows that certain theoretically-imaginable events simply never occur in reality. In modern computer-oriented jargon, they might b...

I like the cloudy graphics (probably Flash artwork) and drowsy musical tone of the French Olympic promotional video. Click the above image t...

I've been reading Steven Pinker 's bestseller about language, published back in 1994, entitled The Language Instinct . It is indeed ...

Arithmetically, if all goes well, Cadel Evans should win this year's Tour de France , envisaged beforehand by former champion Laurent F...