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Maybe I disregarded a wise saying: If it ain't broke, don't fix it. In a corner of my kitchen, there wasn't really anything wro...

I happened to drive to Grenoble yesterday, to purchase a few odds and ends at Ikea. Only when I was home at Gamone did I learn that the Alpi...

For the last few days, a wallaby that escaped from a property in south-west France has been gallivanting around the countryside, often along...

... but you can't necessarily make him dive in and swim. The presence of Emmanuelle at Gamone made it feasible to coax Fitzroy int...

We can count on Richard Dawkins to find the right words to fire at Mitt Romney . Meanwhile, two other prominent atheists, Sam Harris ...

In the domain of magic , maybe the most celebrated liquid of all time was mercury . Medieval alchemists looked upon this weird substan...

In France, in a butcher's shop or in the meat section of a supermarket, when you buy a piece of pork to be roasted, you generally get a ...

Recently, somewhere out in the wide wild world of fashion design, a genius came up with the following prototype: Let's say that yo...

I learn with interest that kangatarianism is a new nutritional approach, popular in my native land, which consists of avoiding all meat... ...

The Domesday Survey was commissioned by King William I in 1086, two decades after the Battle of Hastings and the start of the Conquest. To...

Do you mean to say that you use a pair of pliers when you're preparing a meal in the kitchen? Yes, they're ideal for removing ...

Often, when I look out through my bathroom window, I'm surprised to find an aircraft looking back at me. It would be nice to know ...

You're familiar, of course, with these two famous images: Bart Simpson and his sister Lisa . Now, close your eyes and form the f...