In the TLS, a review of a new translation of Linneaus' Philosophica Botanica, another book that I am sure to know more about through reviews than reading. No matter, the point is that this review, by Jim Endersby, a Cambridge historian of science, is as good an introduction to the delights and...
Walked home on air last night, my shoe a definite half size too big, my feet pink and shiny and soft. I had a Chinese pedicure and foot massage.
You’ll think I’m some kind of retard, reaching well into middle age and remaining a pedicure virgin, but there it is. Can’t go into all the details, most...
Tangled Bank 50 turned up some nice reads, not least the self-selected “carnival of the vanities” post by James Hrynyshyn, this edition’s editor.
In Getting our act together ... not he wittily conjoins two separate ideas.
Exhibit A is the never-ending argument among scientists over the rol...
Thrilled, on returning from hospital, by this bud on my Lithops, I had been waiting for it to open fully. Morning, before work, and evening, after, I checked it; no change. But this afternoon, before my nap, there it was, fully open.
I should have known (or guessed) there might be a circadian e...
I’m shocked.
Prayers offered by strangers had no effect on the recovery of people who were undergoing heart surgery, a large and long-awaited study has found.
And patients who knew they were being prayed for had a higher rate of post-operative complications like abnormal heart rhythms, perha...
