In a Harris Interactive poll for a French TV station, released on January 5th, 54% of the French and 40% of Britons, Germans and Italians rank global warming among the top two challenges facing the planet that personally affect them. Only 30% of Americans agree. When all is said and done, climate change affects everyone …
The more science is distorted by dishonest governments and by religious medievalists, the more the following needs repeating: .…………….the essence of wisdom is the willingness to say "I don’t know." Why is there something rather than nothing? "I don’t know." Why are the laws of nature what they are? "I don’t know." Why does Bach’s …
Have you noticed that one wine is starting to taste like the next one, or is it the fault of my taste buds? The Australian wine “engineers” have been at it for years now, making acceptable sipping wines with the latest technology, but in doing so making wine homogenized and with less and less individual …
“Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart……. Whatever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work or device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom in the grave, whither thou goest.” Ecclesiastes Chapter 9 verses 7-10
I’ve been reading a review of a book by Iain Sinclair, called London, City of Disappearances, a collection of the regrets and recollections by some sixty-odd contributors. They talk about long-gone people, bookshops, locations, urban myths and memories. But one huge, vanishing aspect to this swarming beehive of a city, and one that pains me, …
