Moonballs from Planet Earth

The Cerne Giant on his Dorset hillside The Cerne Giant (pictured above) is one of England’s most cherished icons. He is a chalk figure etche...

Can writers actually write together? Can writers jam together the way members of a rock or jazz band might, to create something better than ...

Marie Kondo, the Japanese decluttering guru, wearing a signature white dress Dear Marie, I love KonMari. Your world famous decluttering me...

Novak Djokovic in action The New Yorker about Novak Djokovic : "He was a McKinsey man, hitting his percentages. His approach wa...

I hate fortune tellers. This feeling isn't mild, amused scepticism, but fierce antipathy, and comes from Indian upbringing. B...

"At Oxford in the nineteen-forties, Professor John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was generally considered the most boring lecturer around...

Kolaveri Di has lived out fourteen out of its fifteen minutes of fame. So, one final thought to occupy that last minute: Kolaveri Di h...

English is the world's most successful language because it is so rich, it has many more words than any comparable language. Yet, frustr...

"Life gradually became less a search for meaning than a process of optimization: how to put this sentence the best way in the fewest wo...

The dust has now settled on Wimbledon 2011. We have two exciting young champions to celebrate in Petra Kvitova and Novak Djokovic. Rafael N...

There really are big-point players in tennis. Just found a couple of statistical references to support this claim. Watching this year’s Wimb...

The United States is being invaded!! Hundreds of thousands of slimy aliens are slithering around the sacred homeland. And so, the United St...

When is drinking good clean fun, and when is it dangerous and destructive? The dividing line is mostly about how you drink rather than how ...

...Peter Jackson, requiring a wrathful army for Helm's Deep, bravely ventured onto a cricket pitch, during a break, and asked twenty-fiv...

Was Clement Attlee a great Prime Minister? Or was he a bungling idiot? This feels like an interesting question right now, because the two is...

Psychologists think the ability to delay gratification is central to academic achievement, and more generally, to emotional intelligence. Co...