Party animals
The social you are, the more of a party animal you become—and the cheaper it becomes to get wasted. Just ask crayfish.
Read moreThe social you are, the more of a party animal you become—and the cheaper it becomes to get wasted. Just ask crayfish.
Read moreAccording to an Economist review of Wally Olins’ posthumous Brand New: The Shape of Brands to Come (Thames & Hudson, 2014), branding is “about knowing who you are…and showing it.” It sounds simple but for a novelist it is not.
Read moreThere’s the Economist’s blog article on the brilliantly restored Rijksmuseum, with thoughtful, luscious videography. And then, when your Sunday latte has woken…
Read moreI know, I’ve been largely absent. Life is just being very, hm, lifelike at the moment. But here’s a long, juicy post…
Read moreWhile I wait for a couple of publishing-related things to happen, I’ve been catching up on my reading. This week’s Economist has…
Read moreThis is “Dirty Old Town,” by Ewan MacColl. As Prospero, the Economist art blog, points out: “Although about Salford, it could be…
Read moreI read All Day Permanent Red when it first came out in 2003 (or perhaps it was when it first came out…
Read moreCampbell’s Soup I (1968), low-res snapshot so it can (hopefully) be considered Fair Use, via Wikipedia A couple of weeks ago I…
Read moreToday for your delectation and delight, here’s a selection of publishing news for you. According to Publishers Weekly, ebook sales in June…
Read moreI lifted the title for this post from the Economist article of the same name: Radiocarbon dating provides a range, often spanning…
Read moreVia Cassandra, I learnt about the Point Project. According to their website, the Point Project: is a project to gather information about…
Read moreOn this lovely November Saturday, three things for you delectation and delight. A great review of Kelley’s Dangerous Space by Terry Weyna,…
Read moreIn the battle that is Humankind vs. Mankind we all know who would win: for one thing, there are more than twice…
Read more(Thanks, Angélique) How do you think a doctor knowsHow a disease like cancer grows?How did we learn how we might treat it?How…
Read moreA couple of weeks ago, I read a funny article in the Economist, “Yammering away at the office.” (The Economist is often…
Read moreI cam across a lovely new word last week in the Economist: apparatgeist, in a most interesting piece “The Apparatgeist calls.” ‘How…
Read moreWell, okay, it looks as though the Economist has already said everying I was trying to say yesterday, and said it better….
Read moreAccording to the Economist, Jefferson Duarte of Rice University in Houston, Texas, thinks that a person’s creditworthiness can be seen in their…
Read moreillustration: The Economist In Medical News Today, I read an article that triggered a lot of thinking. It’s about how playing Tetris…
Read moreAn interesting article about gender difference in maths and reading test scores in this week’s economist, ‘Vital Statistics‘: Luigi Guiso of the…
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