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Weetabix is my main breakfast diet, and has been for close to a quarter of a century, back to the times when my parents had to smuggle it illegally from England It has been my brothers’ too, and the result is: [more]

After the roaring success of bloglily’s Christmas book stack, I wondered whether the concept could at all be translated into the digital world. A (fortunately fictional) illustration is worth a thousand pages of e-speech:

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In a discussion at On Philosophy about the good life, Peter argues that the pursuit of happiness is a mirage, and that people should find themselves a more suitable quest if they want to lead a good life.

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I recently saw The Meaning of Life for the umpteeth time, and could not resist sharing some of it:
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A post about the bright side of the impending energy crisis: what if sustained development was the next big growth reserve for our greedy economy?

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In the wake of Dorothy’s recent post about The Polysyllabic Spree in which she describes how Nick Hornby unfairly judges fiction writers who tirelessly seek the holy graal of perfect conciseness, [more]

I am celebrating my fiftieth post or thereabouts. It took me six months to finetune the general perimeter of the main themes. Now that the scope is nicely stabilizing, I offer you a global overview of where this blog is going.

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In France, there are roughly 3 million tons of French people. And at least 100 million tons of earthworms. On a global scale, earthworms make up 80% of the land animal biomass — much much more than men + livestock. Just thought I’d let you know.