Ice cream of the gods

You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy ice cream.

Digital identities

Fingerprints are unique to every individual. And so are biometrics.

Down under with Mark Twain

In Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World (1897), Mark Twain recalls visiting Australia, where he noted the strange names of local communities.

Catalonia: Nothing ventured, nothing gained

With a history stretching back to the early Middle Ages, Catalonia thinks of itself as a separate nation.

An elephant in the room

“The Carnival of the Animals” is a suite by French composer Camille Saint-Saëns for which Ogden Nash once provided poems.

Let It Be Forgotten

When remembering is too painful, we can pretend to forget.

Apples to be eaten in the wind

“There’s small choice in rotten apples”, says Hortensio in Shakepeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. But among over 7,000 varieties of good apples grown worldwide there is immense choice.