The RSA: Climate Change Requires Immediate Attention
I’m always impressed with The RSA’s animations. This one was just released. It tells an important and urgent story about climate change. Acknowledging the nastiness of dealing with two catastrophes at...
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Number Five
Finally! A good biography of the fifth U.S. president, James Monroe!! When I started reading presidential biographies, in order, I figured there might be some patches where no decent and recent...
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Seeing 10 Years into the Future
Somehow, even in the shadow of the virus, we can see 2030 with surprising clarity. We know a lot, and we can make good guesses about much of what we don’t know. In fact, I’ve been doing this for...
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Just Beyond Penzance
Penzance is the big place, the one with the proper harbor, and renown of Humphry Davy, the renowned chemist who invented the miner’s headlamp and, with Michael Faraday, figured out diamonds were pure...
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We Were Not Alone
Seems like science fiction, but for a long time, Homo sapiens were not the only human beings on earth. And there were a lot of them. And they lived in a very large area that included most of Europe,...
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CDs, LPs and the Future of a Record Label
The problem is, we’re easily convinced to do foolish things. We started with a few very good ideas, but then, we followed the crowd.The first of the good ideas goes back to Edison in the late 1880s:...
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Magical World: Nom Wah!
If you happen to wander through Chinatown, in New York City or in Philadelphia, the name Nom Wah may mean something to you. Sure, it’s a Chinese restaurant, but not many Chinese restaurants date back...
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Indonesian Food!
Now is not the very best time to try new restaurants, but it is a very good time to try new cookbooks, and perhaps, new cuisines as well. Let’s begin with Eleanor Ford’s Fire Islands: Recipes from...
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LAND, from the prolific Simon Winchester
Simon Winchester has taught me a great deal. Including: in any given used bookshop, there will always be at least one nonfiction book by Simon Winchester that I have not read before. Past encounters,...
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Dogmen & Dynasty
The castle and the surrounding landscape are magnificent, so I thought I would begin with a big picture. Martyn Rady is a historian and a very good storyteller. He is a Professor Emeritus of Central...
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