Whatever pathology it is that makes some people write doctorates, must be the same one that finds we academics bunking down the moment our marking is done for the year, to conduct research during our Summer […]

I am taking a leaf from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC/”Aunty”), and from now on will only be approving comments that I first enjoyed reading myself. Given that I am so fussy, and don’t get much […]

People who ride bicycles are a good humoured lot. We must be. If we weren’t, we would be naming as “hate speech” every taunt yelled at us from a car window; we would sue newspapers for […]

Last June I met with a group of bicycle activists in New York, most notably Charles Komoff, famous (among other things) for revitalising Transportation Alternatives during the 80s. I have not blogged about our meeting that […]

Early Christians in Rome found shells left abandoned, in the form of Roman basilicas. They moved the entrance from the side to the end, and viola: the latin cross church. The Southern Indian—”Dravidian”—temple form was likewise […]