Artist – Self-portrait (The Instagram version was better – the coffee was a GIF. Now the steam is immobile : c)
Monthly Archives: March 2020
Each to its time
The greatest loss that came with the demolition of old St James Centre (1975-2016, architects: Burke & Martin 1964-, Hugh Martin & Partners 1969-) is the footbridge above Leith Street. I mean, wouldn’t you…
Best of Belleville, Paris
Google Photos Album – Best of Belleville, Paris 30 September 2017
Marie Curie is an anti-feminist character – Give women their maiden names (If they want them)
As March and the Great Daffodil Appeal have arrived, it’s worth knowing that Marie Curie never actually received the Nobel Prize in chemistry. It was Marie Skłodowska-Curie. Check her Nobel Prize diploma — no, not her joint diploma with her husband and this other guy, which she almost didn’t get because of being a woman.Continue reading “Marie Curie is an anti-feminist character – Give women their maiden names (If they want them)”
Focus is the bluest colour
I can’t express to you how much I hate food sections in the newspapers. And potlucks. God, potlucks are the worst — it’s a curse that they seem to be the easiest form of student socialisation, as they happen in my residence hall all. The. Time.