Rags and riches in New York

New York’s Frick and Tenement museums symbolize the city.

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Technostress rules

How to survive the digital future.

A winter’s bark tale

Descendant of an ancient lineage.

Time and tide wait for no one

“I must down to the seas again” wrote John Masefield in his poem “Sea Fever” first published in Salt-Water Ballads in 1902.

An Englishman’s home is someone else’s castle

The French castle of where Richard the Lionheart was slain is up for grabs.

French bakers use their loaf

I went to the zoo yesterday and saw a baguette in a cage.

Cosmic souvenirs of the Big Bang

The universe is where “we float like a mote of dust in the morning sky”.