The Grand Canal in Venice, Claude Monet, 1908
How to Store Fresh Herbs During Winter No one likes paying $3-4 USD for herbs in the winter. And most of us prefer not to buy and consume herbs that have traveled thousands of miles in the back of a truck or bottom of a boat before reaching us. And if you’re like us you […]
“There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil,” Bill Gates wrote this summer. That’s quite an endorsement—and it gave a jolt of fame to Smil, a professor emeritus of environment and geography at the University of Manitoba. In a world of specialized intellectuals, Smil is an ambitious and astonishing […]
I’m grateful that I had a chance to read Eckhart Tolle’s book A New Earth last year. Very interesting man and mind.