The first thing I noticed, as I went lazily along through an open place in the wood, was a large Beetle lying struggling on its back – Sylvi...

Last week a beautiful and venerable line of roadside trees was cut down on order of our state roads department because some years ago a dru...

Vanessa Ruiz's Street Anatomy: Medicine + Art + Design blog is so good and packed with surprises (except, ahem, for the respect given...

Often prizes are awarded to the spectacularly vacuous . But the 2007 New Scientist Eureka Science Photography finalists deserve their comf...

In the fractured world of fiction, where every book is genrified, many readers smash the booksellers' genres to make their own. A friend...

" A new spectre is haunting the planet - technolust," writes John Naughton in The Observer . And while I disagree with him...

Bev Wigney's always fascinating Burning Silo is the host this time for the Circus of the Spineless, edition #22 and her choices a...

Regular slashing keeps the bank uninteresting, unless you're walking. This detail from a Casuarina , commonly called a she-oak (though...

From a letter I just received, quoted here with the writer's permission: "We are stuck with a western frame of reference, with ...

Will a 'self-cleaning' oven save you mindless hours spent scrubbing, scourer in hand and cleaning fumes up your nose? asked the Apr...