NB! · Books · Humour
Alexandr Radayev
Books · Mores · Ethnography
Shipovka, or "Vodytsa": a drink of berries steeped in wine
Are you quite sure you know the Russian table?
NB! · Art
Good Morning from Giotto
Cinema · Books · Observations
Netflix series based on García Márquez’s “One Hundred Years of Solitude” as a reason to reread the novel
Without exaggeration, Netflix's adaptation of Márquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude" is a masterpiece. I cannot say which of their projects could rival it for beauty. Flawlessly beautiful and unhurried, it neither wrecks the harmony nor interrupts the flow of the text. I did
Monarchies · People · Humour
Kate Middleton Turns 43!
How quickly other people's princesses grow up
Observations · Science · People
Somewhere, Something Incredible Is Waiting to Be Known
The American astronomer Carl Sagan
Faith · Observations · Society
China on Course to Become the "Most Christian Country in the World" Within 15 Years
The number of Christians in Communist China is growing so steadily that by 2030 it may have more churchgoers than America. What can one say but: thank God!
NB! · Education
Higher education at Britain's finest university means:
Observations · Science · Society · Humour
The editorial board of the palaeoanthropological journal Journal of Human Evolution has resigned over the publisher's imposition of artificial intelligence tools, which increased neither the efficiency nor the quality of the work, but…
In particular, it is reported that when, in the autumn of 2023, an AI-based machine assistant was brought in to edit texts, it began replacing the capital letters in proper names with lower-case ones and altering the typefaces specially used to set off terms and scientific nomenclature. As
NB! · Humour
Life never quite went the lad's way, even from the start
Art · Observations · Humour
Life Imitates Art
A burning Bank of America somewhere at the foot of the Hollywood Hills, and in a painting by Alex Schaefer
Aristocracy · Museums · Mores · People
Denis Davydov's Golden Toothpick
The Pushkin Museum