Antipodes

In this blog, here , I’ve already mentioned the prestigious annual Darwin Awards . They’re necessarily posthumous awards, because a winne...

Here at Gamone, it would be an exaggeration to claim that it’s cold… unless, of course, you were to go wandering around on the slopes—Aussi...

Over the last month or so, in the context of my work on a future book about Gamone, I’ve been investigating haphazardly and half-heartedly t...

Here in France, as elsewhere, Sydney’s terrible ordeal was front-page news, and we could follow events in real time, not only through the In...

The awkward term “ de-extinction ” designates the idea of recreating a living organism that had become extinct. This idea gives rise to two ...

It has just been revealed officially that this evil trio— Donald Rumsfeld , George W Bush and Dick Cheney —allowed the CIA [ Central Inte...

This is the kind of surveillance camera that I’ve installed near the entry to Gamone: You might imagine that this device has been d...

Maybe I’m exaggerating when I refer to these huge pieces of freshly-shot wild boar as medieval meat. You’ll have to excuse me. My h...

Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like unto a great new light cast by the lamps of Led. Then...

In my house at Gamone, I’ve just assembled and installed two alarm panels like this: The alarm on the left is a smoke detector, whi...

In French, the word for mists is brume . So, the new calendar that was invented in the wake of the French Revolution of 1789 invented the l...

Just as I decided long ago to have nothing whatsoever to do with the childish but pernicious Facebook phenomenon, I’ve always been determin...

There's no doubt in my mind that Richard Dawkins will survive, for he's surely one of the fittest thinkers on our planet Earth. ...

My dog Fitzroy continues to demonstrate his tastes in sculptural forms. These days, I have a large stock of high-quality firewood in the s...

Don’t ask me why I adore this image: My joy is strictly Platonic. The old Greek fuddy-duddy tried to persuade us that Heaven is ful...

It's hard to imagine that a quiet and well-behaved old-timer like me might evoke the possibility of his Viking ancestry. Besides, I can’...