Tag: culture

Death of a Hornet

Published July 1, 2016

I am finally finishing a book that I found by chance, last year, in a beautiful second-hand English bookshop in Amsterdam. Death of a Hornet,…

Published March 16, 2012

Tonight I was checking my Twitter feed when I found this blog post on Nature Soapbox Science blog. Where it says that, at a Royal…

Published January 15, 2012

It is very probable that my readers know what Reddit is. In case instead you lived the last five years under a rock, it is…

Published June 7, 2011

The proverbial sadness of the Tropics has been depicted in detail by much better people than me: yet I must echo the lament. In fact,…

Published December 10, 2010

It had to happen, and, if anything, what is surprising is that it took so much time. The whole point of the cables Wikileaks affair…