Antipodes

I know little about Joseph Stalin 's sense of humor, but I would imagine that he was cracking a joke when he once asked sarcastically: ...

The taxon (biological category) of this recently-discovered dinosaur is Concavenator corcovatus , which means "the Cuenca predator with...

The national French library has an excellent online service named Gallica . Among countless treasures of all kinds, they propose issues of t...

More seriously, one of my favorite iPad apps is Flipboard , which displays such things as your Twitter and Facebook pages. Since most of my ...

The following video shows a Republican guy named Phil Davidson making his candidate's speech for the county treasurer's job:‬ It wo...

A few weeks ago, in writing a blog article entitled Americans fond of symbolic destruction [ display ] , I had been motivated by two quite ...

I've often been intrigued by the absence, in France, of certain foodstuffs that are popular in the English-speaking world. A striking ex...

See how long you can watch the following holy shit (made, of course, in the USA) before being overcome by nausea: I got as far as the first ...

On the second day of our Provençal excursion, Christine and I drove through the Camargue region of the Rhône delta, then visited several si...

Christine arrived at Gamone a week ago. On Wednesday, we set out in the car for a short excursion to Provence, leaving Sophia in the capab...

A month or so ago, I was thrilled, as usual, by the brilliant analyses of Laurent Fignon in his role as a TV journalist covering the Tour d...

Australia is a big country, and all kinds of things can go wrong. My problem, on the contrary, is that my boomerangs keep coming back. I can...

I've just been reading these two books, which tackle a fascinating subject: the genetic origins of the peoples of the British Isles. Wri...

To make this insanely-great apple pie, you need to have an apple tree. It doesn't have to be the finest apple tree in the Newtonian univ...

Normally, the Smashwords aggregator will be shipping my novel All the Earth is Mine to iBooks tomorrow, and it'll take a week for it ...

For the final phase of testing the new kennel, I filled it with straw. At one stage, Sophia burrowed into the straw and dozed there for ten...

Hey, this photo suggests that part of Julia Gillard 's house uses the same kind of carpentry materials and technique—knotty pine slabs a...

With the election over, and an era of political instability lying ahead, let me get back to my regular observations about the rickety infras...

In my recent article entitled Construction of a kennel [ display ] , I explained that I've started to build a kennel for Sophia 's ...