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It's all very well to be an Oxford professor, a successful author of books, and to have been awarded a pile of honorary doctorates. That...

I found this photo on the Internet. It's an old house not far from my birthplace: Grafton in Australia. I don't know the photographe...

Over the last two days, the sun has reappeared at Gamone, after weeks of damp overcast skies. I decided to take out my my warm-weather work...

He got into a fight with a dog. Did the dog bite him? No, this guy's an electronics engineer who works in advanced computer technolo...

When I first arrived in Paris, I didn't know enough French to take advantage of an excellent newspaper such as Le Monde . So, I contente...

At this time of the year, rare species have started to bloom on the slopes of Gamone. The long thorns of the ice tree are as sharp as...

At this time of the year, I don't usually drive across in the vicinity of Châtelus, on the other side of the Bourne. But I went across t...

The bird I've nicknamed the "Galapagos guy" is a finch that I presented in a blog post on the eve of Darwin Day [ display ]. H...

In the cheese domain, my native land seems to have invented the equivalent of the Eurovision Song Contest. At the annual dairy awards of the...

A few days ago, a friendly reader of my blog sent me a link to a list of online genealogical resources [ here ]. I replied that an all-impor...

Over the last hour, a guy named Richard Dawkins has been using Twitter to create a brilliantly succinct treatise on Christian theology. ...

Recently, I received a short visit from my cousin Mitchell Smith and his wife Melissa , who are medical practitioners in Sydney. On ...

Yesterday, I came upon an interesting blog article in French by the celebrated writer Jacques Attali . [Use Google to discover the many tale...

In this poor-quality photo—taken yesterday through the smudgy glass of my bedroom window on an overcast afternoon—the little creamy-hued tit...

I'll never forget that splendid woman. It's true that her facial features have become a little blurry in my aging memory. But not th...

In my blog post of 22 October 2011 entitled What science is saying [ display ], I spoke of a fabulous book for young and old alike: The Mag...

As soon as winter sets in here at Gamone, it becomes difficult to pursue any kind of outdoor work. Consequently, construction of my carport ...

Wild wolves are now proliferating successfully in France, and their current population is 250. Wild wolf, 13 November 2012, in the Merc...

This remarkable color photo of a spot in the Latin Quarter (Paris)—the intersection of the rue de l'Ecole-Polytechnique and the rue de ...

Who's this young lady? And what's she doing? She's an American schoolteacher, and she's using a commonplace whiteboard...