Live while you are alive
For many Americans, particularly those of a conservative disposition, theirs is the greatest country in the world. Patriotism is a far more prominent feature of American politics and culture than in Europe, with adversaries denouncing each other for insufficiently loving and caring for their country. Much of this is justified, even if European liberals find …
British Transport Minister John Hayes recently proked criticism after a speech to the Independent Transport Commission in which he spoke of the ugliness of Britain’s transport architecture and the importance of making our public and industrial buildings more beautiful. Why give us a “trivial and twee” homily on aesthetics, carped the critics: aren’t there more …
We’re not just drinking more wine than our forebears: we’re drinking it from ever-bigger glasses. A team from the University of Cambridge analysed 411 wine glasses and found that the ones we use today are, on average, almost seven times larger than those used in the Georgian era, having grown from 66ml in the early …
Parenthood and happiness are hard to study. One researcher commented, “If you want to understand the causal effect of sleeping pills on somebody’s sleep, you can run placebo trials, but kids can’t be handed out at random to see what effect they have on people”. What is certain is that across the developed world people …
Glaub, was wahr ist; Lieb, was rar ist; Trink, was klar ist” “Believe what is true; love what is rare; drink what is clear”.
