Antipodes

Once or twice a day, as usual, Fitzroy lets off steam by means of a short but intense session of hose running. I tried to “freeze”...

In my blog post of November 2010 entitled Master mushroom chef [ display ], I spoke of Coprinus comatus mushrooms, which are one of my fa...

In my blog post of 18 September 2013 entitled Country lanes [ display ], I indicated that the mayor of Choranche and his municipal councill...

As soon as the Great War broke out, the French psychiatrist Frantz Adam [1886-1986] was enlisted as a medical officer in a French infantry ...

People tend to think that France is a modern nation (well, some people, at least) and that Paris is a great city in constant evolution. I m...

The French website of Le Nouvel Observateur offers us regularly various collections of great images. I would imagine that this stuff should...

Creationists and folk who believe in the truth of Genesis are trying constantly to invent arguments designed to reveal that Darwinian evolut...

A week ago, I announced [ display ] that my maternal family-history document was completed. Today, I'm happy to announce that the comple...

The great Edith Piaf sung the praise of her lover, member of the French Foreign Legion, whose body exuded the aroma of hot sand. Thous...

I didn't hear the noise of the impact, but my photo proves that the catastrophe did in fact occur... this afternoon, at an undetermined ...

My stone cellar finally has a stout wooden door at its southern end. One of these days, I'll build a staircase up to the ground le...

I've finally completed a full version of my maternal family-history story, entitled A Little Bit of Irish . It's 242 pages long, and...

The Atlas robot, being developed by Boston Dynamics , measures 1m88, weighs 150 kilos and can use its stereoscopic vision to move around on...

This video, dating from 2009, is one of the finest, shortest and most precise statements made by Richard Dawkins on the subject of creation...

From my bathroom window, I glimpsed a pheasant in my rose garden. I rushed downstairs with my camera, hoping to get closer to the bird...

For most of my time in Paris, I lived in a second-floor apartment at 23 rue Rambuteau, between the Centre Pompidou and the Marais quarter. A...

For this poor little frog, the journey to space and back didn't last more than a few seconds, and I would imagine that his return to Ear...

Up until today, my collection of mysterious objects at Gamone has included as star exhibits the following specimens (all of which have been ...

There's a new atheist kid on the YouTube block: Jaclyn Glenn . Here's her profile: Jaclyn Glenn was born March 25, 1988, an...

The day before yesterday, as I was about to set out on my usual early-morning stroll with Fitzroy , I was alarmed by a strident donkey bray ...