Today’s Style Invitational asked for hybrid animals: Emu x quail = email: a fast-flying bird that propagates rapidly, is monitored obsessively by humans, and often carries a virus. (Allan Moore, Washington) [more...]
Cool photos from yesterday’s Annular Eclipse (not “annual,” as the local television news ticker kept insisting). This one shows the image of the eclipse projected through natural pin-hole cameras: a [more...]
… as I was a little while ago, I was just perusing the Bank of England’s website and their new banknotes. Again, I’m struck by the artistry in other countries’ cash, and how dowdy ours is by [more...]
