Objectif CO2 – a voluntary French program
Today I was driving home and I noticed this logo on the back of a truck. Then a little while later, I saw the same logo…
Jessie’s Recipe: Carrot Cake
Dad and I munched indulgently on these last weekend and agreed they were deserving of a blog post. They are carrot cake cupcakes that I made for him and…
Success, failure and the drive to keep creating
Lovely short talk (only 7 minutes) by the author of “Eat, Pray, Love”. She talks about how she spent 6 years writing but constantly got rejected…
Rapeseed invasion and monocultures
Two weeks ago, I was driving home (which is near Paris) from the French Alps after an enjoyable week of skiing. I was constantly amazed by…
Charlie Chaplin, as I began to love myself
I never thought that I’d be writing a post based on Charlie Chaplin, but I am. I’ve been very surprised to find that he’s said and…
Final speech from “The Great Dictator”
I’d never heard Charlie Chaplin speak before and was amazed to find this rousing speech. In the film made in 1940 called The Great Dictator, Charlie…
Hidden miracles of the natural world
Louie Schwartzberg is a real artist, even though he’s really discovering amazing new ways to look at nature. I was first amazed by Louie’s work in…
The Map
I read this book straight after reading Simran Singh’s book, Conversations with the Universe, and I found it fascinating. Basically, I couldn’t read it fast enough. It…
Vapor trails are not friendly
When I was in the French Alps skiing last week, I was really struck be the vapor trails being left by the airplanes. This image just…
Can I reduce fuel consumption by 10% ?
Yesterday, I happened to find an article by The Guardian newspaper in the UK called – Exxon Mobil’s response to climate change is consummate arrogance – that shocked…
Could there be multiple universes?
For various reasons I’ve been considering this question lately, and now the scientific evidence recently discovered (see this TED talk by Allan Adams – The discovery that…