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There's a nice story in the US media about a 38-year-old flight attendant, Steven Slater , who was totally fed up with the behavior of a...

Today, I decided to start using an excellent service named twitterfeed that systematically feeds all new Antipodes articles to my Twitter ...

In my recent article entitled Moshé's future companion [ display ] , I mentioned my neighbor Sylvie from Presles: the girl who'll ...

This is a photo of Natacha and me standing on a legendary bridge over the Cholet in the nearby village of St-Laurent-en-Royans: This massiv...

August 6, 1945. It wasn't, of course, the first day that Man had played at being the Devil. A firestorm had destroyed Dresden on Februar...

In August, many regular residents of Paris go away on vacation, and the city is left to tourists. For a month, the banks of the Seine have b...

You may have heard of the kid who told his teacher that the equator was " an imaginary lion running around the Earth ". As far as ...

Back in 1980, when Christine was engaged in book layout at the Seuil publishing house in Paris, she gave me a work copy of their translatio...

These days, if somebody were to ask me what I do to while away the time in my mountain abode, I have a new and prestigious answer: I'm a...

My donkey Moshé has been upset (disoriented ) by the recent disappearance of his old companion Mandrin . It's a well-known fact that do...

Several Australians have become notorious for their Creationist beliefs. First and foremost, of course, there's the Queenslander Ken Ham...

In catastrophic dreams, at moments, the entire universe becomes unstuck, turned upside-down. Then, a moment later, everything is back in pla...

My ex-wife Christine , who reads Antipodes regularly, seems to imagine that I've built up some kind of diabolical hate-system against m...

On the chic website of the French weekly L'Express , I found a curious Marmite video, which I don't really understand. Did the Briti...

Last winter, at Gamone, snow seemed to be falling almost ceaselessly. In the context of today's hot weather, that photo of beige Moshé ...

There are so many things to worry about in the modern world that I don't know whether there are folk who still wonder why the burgers in...

If I haven't blogged much over the last week, it's because I was busy tidying up the house for the arrival of Manya and Hakeem . I ...

The Pharyngula blog of PZ Myers led me to this video, based upon a profound text by the US cosmologist Carl Sagan [1934-1996]:

This convent was founded at Beauvoir-en-Royans in 1343, in the grounds of the magnificent castle of the Dauphin Humbert II [1312-1355], jus...

On Bastille Day, Natacha and Alain came to visit me at Gamone. Knowing that I'd created a garden, they gave me a set of solar lamps. T...