The Economist , in Names for Sale , its leader discussing the millions of animals in need of names, brings up "the difficulty of who wi...

Pepper a hunk of meat, and the diner can scrape the pepper off or use tweezers to pick it out. But if you want what you shove into that hun...

The most beautiful dance I've ever seen, from David Attenborough's newest series, Life in the Undergrowth . See leopard slugs move ...

In 1976, I saw Jaws in Mexico City, at a movie theater that we were lucky didn't burn while the film was running. There were about 5,000...

TREE: Persoonia , though I don't know the species (there are approximately 100). Commonly called Geebung , this tree, like many other g...

Have you ever regarded something that was transformed, by the peculiar state of your mind at that moment, into something quite different, an...

I love really used books. This fell out of one just now.

It isn't wise to stop by the side of just any anthill in Australia, but this one had no aggressive defenders. The visible ants were bus...

It's high summer here in southern New South Wales, and the grandfather's beard is in seed. By winter, the grandfather's beard wi...

He came first once, then twice a week, exactly at 7:30 pm, in a clean torn shirt topped by a gnarled sweater, his smile eager an...