Live while you are alive
“Enjoy the wonder, the beauty of the universe and the things around you. Forget that we are unique and that God made us in his image, and relish the beauty and fecundity of the earth. The way things that breed wonderment”. (Montaigne) A lovely sentiment, although Montaigne seemed to waver frequently between belief and non-belief …
Could the traditional filament light bulb, with its comforting warm glow, make a comeback? That is the prospect raised by a team in the US, who say they’ve found a way of using nanotechnology to make the bulbs more eco-friendly. Edison bulbs heat a thin tungsten wire to a temperature of 2,700°C, but 95% of …
“Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is, like grace and beauty in the body, which charm at first sight, and leads on to further intimacy and friendship, opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our …
Diets used to be incredibly popular all over the Western world, but it seems those days are over. “Dieting is not a fashionable word these days,” says Susan Roberts, a professor of nutrition and psychiatry at Tufts University. “[Consumers] equate the word diet with deprivation, and they know deprivation doesn’t work.” A survey of 2,000 …
The agony aunt column in the Washington Post ( January17th), carried a letter from a woman in graduate school to Carolyn Hax, the editor. She and her husband had recently married in a small civil ceremony, owing to lack of money. The young woman’s grandparents, felt that the couple was “living in sin” and refused …
