The overall COVID death rate for men is 1.6 times higher than that for women. (Fight the matriarchy!) Side note: + more
The overall COVID death rate for men is 1.6 times higher than that for women. (Fight the matriarchy!) Side note: + more
Remember a while back when I admitted having a crush on Suzanne “Diva of the Diode” Ciani? (Sure, you’ve got + more
Science nerds, rejoice! River Runner enables you to “drop a raindrop anywhere in the contiguous United States and watch where + more
In his diary entry for October 8, 1995, Brian Eno may have hit on something truly profound: “Starting to think + more
Bidding on a first-edition copy of Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations commences in five days. Fewer than a thousand + more
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook’s The Rest Is History, a twice-weekly podcast, is just the sort of thing we need + more
Maybe it’s my age, but it seems increasingly difficult to be sanguine about, well…pretty much anything, really. Even my wife, + more
Speaking of Charlie Watts (you didn’t think I’d let his death pass without saying something, did you?), I think Jack + more
With all the terrible stuff in the news of late—Afghanistan, COVID, the death of Charlie Watts—it’s worth remembering the words + more
“My chief complaint against some practitioners of heavy metal guitar from the early 70s through the early 80s,” writes guitarist + more
A malaphor, according to Wiktionary, is a blend of malapropism and metaphor; “an error in which two similar figures of speech + more
Workers aren’t working in Wyoming. (Including proofreaders, it seems.) Behold! A 100-tweet thread about Friedrich Schlegel! Here’s an unrolled version + more
The Internet is awash with terrible, terrible things, e.g. university websites, totalitarian millennials, and TikTok influencers. But sometimes—sometimes—a guy can + more
From the diary of James Lees-Milne, August 10, 1945: I had to lunch with Charles Fry my publisher at the + more
Over at the Literary Review, Adrian Tinniswood reviews James Fox’s The World According to Colour: A Cultural History, in which + more