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Whenever my lovely friend Corina decides to put up a video on her blog, I'm inevitably delighted, and tempted to steal her suggestions....

My uncle Isaac Kennedy Walker —known variously as " Farmer ", " Ken " or " Bargy " (baby talk for the word ba...

This is excellent Hitchens :

This seemed to be the word I was looking for, but maybe it isn't. I'm thinking of the process by which an individual attempts to bri...

A few hours after their arrival in Tel-Aviv to investigate the use of Australian passports in the recent assassination of Hamas commander Ma...

America is a sick nation. Let me rephrase my opening line. Some of America's would-be leaders are silly, sad and sick creatures. Serious...

Here's the gist of a trivial personal health problem that arose almost five years ago, which I've often described. My huge ram had e...

I started my professional life in France, in 1965, as a technical writer concerned with the Cyrano radar system of Thomson-CSF for fighter a...

I've always imagined naively that the great Isabelle Adjani would be the ideal French actress to play the role of Abelone in my recent...

As I've often pointed out, Y-chromosome tests have revealed that my haplogroup is R1b1b2a1b5 , which means that I'm a dyed-in-the-wo...

The most fitting operation that could be performed as a tribute to celebrate the life and marine loves of the veteran Sea World trainer Dawn...

In my article of 7 November 2009 entitled Memorable cassoulet [ display ] , I mentioned my enthusiasm for the preparation of this tradition...

[This article, intended for a small subset of my readers, concerns a technical problem at Gamone.] In my article of 23 October 2009 entitled...

When the sun is shining at Gamone, I love to work outside at manual tasks. Think of it, in musical terms, as a counterpoint melody with resp...

French drivers have grown accustomed to the ubiquitous presence of automatic radar devices that catch speeders. Road-users have reacted by p...

I end up thinking that my dog Sophia likes to plant her backside in the scope of my Nikon. Maybe (a more objective observation) my Nikon si...

In the wake of the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, President George W Bush instigated a process aimed at overhauling the US intelli...

I've been meaning for ages to correct an injustice. I've put up pictures on my blog of all the imaginable mountains and cliffs that ...

In yesterday's article entitled Seafarers [ display ] , I introduced readers to my CF -haplogroup ancestor named Dreamtimer , who lived...

This amazing sex video appeared on the excellent Pharyngula blog by the US atheistic biologist PZ Myers [ access ] : This National Geograp...