It’s been a while since I last posted, and in that while I’ve travelled a bit. One of the places I passed through in my travels was London, and I was fortunate [more...]
Having owned a set of the for over a year, I feel like it is about time I wrote something about them. In short, they really are one of the best gadgets I’ve ever [more...]
Liebherr CUP 2221 Fridge A+ Energy efficiency rating. Purchased in February 2012 for 5000 DKK and used for only 3 months. Detailed specifications can be found here. I [more...]
Not to sound too cliché, but “think of the children!” Yesterday was the final day of negotiations. The text was adopted, but it was very weak. The opportunity to [more...]
UN summits are funny things. One of the more unusual things I noticed is the way people are dressed. Rio de Janiero at this time of the year is often in the mid-twenties and [more...]
Worldwatch President Bob Engelman holds up a copy of our latest publication It’s taken a little while to fully decompress, but we seem to have all recovered well from [more...]
Copacabana beach by night So we’ve mostly adjusted to the time zone difference and the climate. Well, sort of. It just keeps getting hotter and hotter. On the morning [more...]
In transit in Lisbon, I came across an old Russian plane on the tarmac This is not the first time I’ve been to Rio. Five years ago, while undertaking an epic voyage [more...]
A pillow fight is good stress relief Sport is a funny thing. It is almost universally recognized that if you want to be good at a sport, then you have to train for it. [more...]
The Unemployment Rate of Selected EU Countries (source: Google Public Data) People who religiously adhere to, or defend a doctrine are to be treated with suspicion. Nowhere [more...]
It is no secret that I like mathematics. It is generally known that most of the maths that I’m really into would fall under the heading of “pure [more...]
It seems that it has been a while since I last wrote something about photography. It’s not that I’ve given up or anything – far from it, it’s just [more...]
Justin Timberlake was a mistake… and so was that other girl Very rarely does a film offer so much potential, yet fall so spectacularly short. This one is screaming for [more...]
A few months ago, I found myself in Japan and in need of a haircut. Not knowing any Japanese, and not being confident that the average Japanese barber would be able to speak [more...]
before you read the article – just keep staring at it until you get it Not long ago, I came across this on my facebook news feed with the caption “First you [more...]