Antipodes

My sister Susan sent me this photo that she has just discovered in Mullumbimby, in northern New South Wales, where she now lives. It shows ...

In the following photo, I refer to the beige stones on the right, propped up against the wall of my house, as my bunyip . (Some readers migh...

After years of refusal, the people in charge of the archives of the Sassenage family finally gave me an authorization, a week or so ago, to...

Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air; And—like the baseles...

The other day, my ex-neighbor Bob called in to pick up his mail. He was driven here by his female companion. Bob had a broken collar-bone a...

An Australian article sent to me by my old friend Bruce Hudson was my first encounter with rumors about Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla...

I think it's good when people who are getting on in years retain a vibrant sense of humor. That's the case for my neighbor Madeleine...

Spammers sell lists of e-mail addresses to entrepreneurial individuals who want to become spammers, and earn piles of cash by selling their ...

The notion of "empowerment" is curious, but so is the sobering observation that countless women on the planet Earth face the funda...

From one year to the next, the annual plowmen's feast at St-Jean-en-Royans seems to be getting duller and duller. In any case, there is ...

An idiotic priest at the Vatican named Raniero Cantalamessa dared to say in a Good Friday homily in St Peter's Basilica, heard by Bened...

You'll have to listen to this quickly, because somebody will surely get around to fixing the bug. You'll hear a woman reading out th...

This afternoon, I was looking around on the web for a recipe for soupe au pistou , which is a typical Provençal dish made with fresh basil a...

The world has learned that the Large Hadron Collider [LHC] was revved up to cruising speed yesterday. My home in France is not far away fro...

Maybe it wasn't a bright idea to plant a small plum tree beneath the canopy of one of my giant linden trees. Nevertheless, it appears to...

Computer atheists refer kindly to the pope as Benny Hex , since 16-based counting is designated as hexadecimal. More rapidly than expected, ...

When my ex-neighbor Bob dropped by to collect his mail, I told him I'd decided to build a holy altar out of wood... to celebrate atheis...

[Click the image to access the Dawkins article] In The Washington Post , this is splendid "strident" Dawkins (he hates that adjec...

It's nice to find CNN airing the profound thoughts of the writer Sam Harris , the author of the New York Times bestsellers The End of Fa...

Tom Chivers , the editor of "strategic events" at the Telegraph , has penned an excellent short piece about Richard Dawkins , and ...