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Found in a letter by a distant and anonymous imperial Chinese official in response to the trials and complaints of the...

Jane Austen is a fount of wryness. Here she is playfully, gently breaking some bad news of the state of...

The young boy is being groomed to earldom, which includes understanding what being an earl actually means. Here he is...

Fine understatement given how many billions of human hours have been lost obliging people to listen to revolutionary speeches.

‘That is slightly...

On Saturday we visited the permanent exhibition at CERN near Geneva. Among the exhibits they had some sound-pods, armchairs that...

At the CERN permanent exhibition we saw a display of Tim Berners-Lee’s one-page proposal for an information management system that...

The crotchety old man is softened and soothed by his grandson, and responds to his many direct questions with surprising...

Imré Kertesz’ novel revolves around a slightly unhinged hero, but given he survived Auschwitz only to end up in another...