Advantage Goliath

Tesco maintains that it will buy local produce "wherever possible". But when its representatives were challenged on this point, th...

robogod

I vividly remember playing in Mayflower Park, the windswept public space that divides the city's dead and 'alive' docks, on my b...

fourth seeks three

I may have to retract my dismissal of bridge as a game with relevance to the world of finance. Warren Buffett apparently thinks otherwise. ...

less unprintable than previously supposed

Languagehat has buried a terrific offer in the Comments section. As I mentioned in a previous post, the US publishers of Uglier than a Monk...

life, the universe and everything

A friend of mine once put it succinctly: “Physics is all about finding out which variables you know and which variable you want, and then se...

babies

Infinite Thought is off-message. Here , here . Do I need to have a kid to understand Antichrist properly? I'm not sure. But I don'...

how to build a better blog

Maira Kalman at the NYT on Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Edison, Uncle Cobbley and all, why is here no match for there? anyway, over there .