NB! · Architecture · Observations · Heritage
A house of the early sixteenth century has been put on stilts in Manchester. It is interesting at last to see how old buildings can, after all, remain within modern urban development, were there only the will
NB! · Cinema · Observations · Pop Culture
Faith · Moscow · Observations · Society
Have you also noticed how little Easter symbolism there is in the city, and how little Easter programming on television, this year? And the few modest Easter decorations in the capital of the country with the largest Orthodox population in the world look particularly odd, considering that the New Year
Faith · Moscow · Observations · Education · Society
For the previous thirty years, a fifteen-minute procession of the cross got in the way of no traffic whatever. Nor do I recall any such restrictions being imposed on rallies and concerts, or on the mass festive and prayer gatherings of other faiths, running to many thousands of people
Monarchies · Observations · People
Grace from On High. The inscription on the coronation token of Elizabeth Petrovna, 1742 And the reign of Peter's daughter truly was a gracious one
Observations · Education · Society
Social studies has no disciplinary core. Physics quite literally explains how the world is put together, why the lightbulb burns and why the water stands heaped above the rim of the glass. Mathematics teaches one to think rigorously and to bestir one's wits. History supplies context. And social
Architecture · Observations · Humour
Design by Carolina Moscoso
Faith · Books · Observations
And joy suddenly stirred in his soul, and he even stopped for a minute to catch his breath. The past, he thought, is linked with the present by an unbroken chain of events flowing one out of another. And it seemed to him that he had just seen both ends
Cinema · Books · Observations · Education · Society
From 2026 all universities in South Korea will be obliged to take records of school bullying into account at admission. Previously this was voluntary; now it is compulsory: an applicant with a record of violence in his school file has his score reduced or is simply turned away. In 2025
Books · Observations · Humour
You lot might want to check that. Garage did not publish one and a half million books, however tempting it is to dazzle with handsome figures. What it did was print one and a half million copies of some fixed number of titles, I don't know, perhaps 100
Observations · Science · Society · Nature · Humour
Despite the sudden loss of 1.6 million bee colonies in a mass die-off across the US in a single year, the Trump administration plans to close the USDA's leading bee research laboratory. Between June 2024 and March 2025, 1.6 million bee colonies died in the
Cinema · Books · Observations · Mores
Has anyone seen this book in their library? It was written by Arkady Vasilyev. A comedy film was made from the story, too. You know the plot: swindlers of every stripe, traders, restaurateurs, butchers, railway station employees and various other rogues found a joint-stock partnership, a sort of secret