Antipodes

As usual, I've harvested a sufficient quantity of walnuts for my personal needs, which consist primarily of making walnut bread. Stockin...

There's an amusing article in The Wall Street Journal [ display ] about a Nobel Laureate in economics, Daniel Kahneman , who's a p...

Last Saturday, my daughter took me to a wonderful restaurant in Tain-l'Hermitage, Le Quai , on the banks of the Rhône. That was the view...

I took this photo this morning: [Click to enlarge slightly] French air-force jet fighters often fly low over Gamone and head towards the ho...

Those are the lovely words— elegance and responsibility —employed by François Hollande as a reaction concerning the electoral exhortations...

If Don Skyvington were alive today, he would have turned 70. Our father Bill Skyvington happened to die at this same date, four days short...

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t rea...

The great Jacques Brel (in my humble opinion, one of the most amazing French-language artists of all time) once created a song that was bas...

Here at Gamone, certain leaves confirm by their color that it's well and truly autumn. But the recent weather has been splendid. I'm...

In the latest version of my BLOG VIEWS menu (in the right-hand column, just below the biographical block with my photo), you can now choose...

The British charitable trust Sense about Science has just launched a promotional campaign on the theme of the constant necessity to ask for...

The English biologist Richard Dawkins was featured yesterday on the front page of The New York Times , and the excellent article was prefac...

Readers have often heard me evoking the fascinating concept of an upside-down world [ display ] in which people, animals and other things d...

It's an ancient French beverage, made from grapes. In my native Australia, it's known as plonk . Full of this stuff, the French fell...

Once again, I've finished rereading the excellent book on Provence by Lawrence Durrell , Caesar's Vast Ghost , published in 1990 jus...

I'm not sure what this dual movie—apparently produced by the SNCF (national French railway system)—is supposed to prove… because I didn...

Here's a picture of the kind of hat I have in mind: Let me refer to it as an iHat (even though I would imagine that this term is alread...

It's easy if you try.

Over the last week or so, countless articles in the media have described the use of fluorescent kittens in a US laboratory—the Mayo Clinic i...

It's a bit scary to see that Nicolas Sarkozy is visiting Libya today, at a weird moment when the ousted dictator Gaddafi still remains...