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INCIDENTAL COMICS Words and Pictures by Grant Snider Friday, March 15, 2019 Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) The Shape of Ideas Follow Incidental Comics by Email Further Reading Twitter Instagram Tumblr Facebook Subscribe To Posts Atom Posts Comments Atom Comments…

Love them or hate them, traffic laws exist to keep people safe and to help vehicles flow smoothly. And while they aren’t legally enforceable, pedestrian traffic also tends to follow its own set of unwritten rules. Most pedestrians use walking etiquette as a way to minimize discomfort—“Oops! Sorry to…

Way back in September 1983, I started my first real job, working at Oranim, a big bread factory in Israel that made something like 100,000 loaves of bread every night in six giant ovens the size of aircraft carriers. The first time I walked into the bakery I couldn’t believe what a mess it was. The…

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O NE NIGHT in 1987 the police woke Walter Alva, a Peruvian archaeologist, and invited him to come to inspect some stolen gold objects. The tip would lead Mr Alva to discover the intact tomb of a ruler of the Mochica (or Moche) civilisation, whom he dubbed the Lord of Sipán. It held the lord’s full…

B RITAIN’S TWO big parties are in a race to see which can fall apart fastest. The Labour Party is leading in numbers: eight MP s quit this week and Tom Watson, the deputy leader, hinted that many more may go if the leadership doesn’t mend its ways. The Conservatives have managed just three…

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Gumbo Life: Tales from the Roux Bayou. By Ken Wells. W.W. Norton; 288 pages; $26.95 and £18.99. G UMBO IS A stew, usually served over rice. On that Louisianan cooks can agree. After that, things become contentious. Should roux, a fat-and-flour mixture, form the foundation of gumbo? Usually, but not…

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S HROPSHIRE IS AS close to the beating heart of England as you can get. The county towns boast some of England’s finest Norman castles and black-and-white houses. Wenlock Edge and the Long Mynd are studies in pastoral beauty—“blue remembered hills”, in A.E. Housman’s immortal phrase in “A Shropshire…

D AN MALLORY’S first novel, a psychological thriller, entered the New York Times bestseller list at number one. He is a handsome and charming man-about-town. He is also, according to a recent profile in the New Yorker , an extravagant liar: about surviving tumours, losing his mother to cancer,…

I T IS AN odd sports fan who travels halfway around the world and is happy to see his team lose. Yet that describes many of the 5,000 sun-pinked English cricket fans who watched England play the West Indies on the Caribbean island of St Lucia this week. Asked whether he minded that England had…

T HE SYRIAN refugees who recently arrived on Greece’s shores punctured their dinghies to ensure there was no way back. They were following a tradition dating to Islam’s first foray into Europe. In 711, a century after the faith was founded, Tariq ibn Ziyad, a Muslim commander, sailed across the…

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Basics Credit Guyco 阅读简体中文版 To the Mesopotamians, the liver was the body’s premier organ, the seat of the human soul and emotions. The ancient Greeks linked the liver to pleasure: The words hepatic and hedonic are thought to share the same root . The Elizabethans referred to their monarch not as the…

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E LIZABETH WARREN , the Massachusetts senator known best for railing against big banks and billionaires, was a registered Republican for a spell in the 1990s. It is an odd bit of biography for Mrs Warren, who is now running for president as a Democrat, and is routinely caricatured as the…

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I N “PLAYER PIANO” , a novel by Kurt Vonnegut, society is divided into a workless majority and an elite who tend all-powerful machines. A character tells how her husband lost his status as a writer when his novel fails to hit the “readability quotient”. She turns to sex work after he refuses the…

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T HERESA MAY’S slow progress through the great mangle of Brexit has been so gruesome that it has distracted attention from another political flattening: that of Jeremy Corbyn. The leader of the opposition put in another fumbling performance in the House of Commons this week in proposing that the…

P ERHAPS THEY are two of the most welcome words in the English language: “Meeting cancelled”. When they cropped up in Bartleby’s message the other day, he experienced a brief moment of elation. In truth, the meeting turned out only to be postponed for two weeks, but procrastination is an…

“I BELIEVE THE children are our future,” sang Whitney Houston, making an obvious fact of life sound like a bold claim. Children will of course not only inherit the world, but shape it. And in their linguistic mistakes, their parents can get a sense of how. Take the child collecting different kinds…

The iHome alarm clock, common in hotels, shows a small PM when the time is after 12 noon. I arrived at my hotel at 7 pm, carefully setting the alarm for 6 am the next morning. Of course, I failed to note that the tiny ‘pm’ wasn’t showing when I set the alarm, which means when I was setting the…

I SRAELI-PALESTINIAN peace talks are frozen. President Donald Trump’s plan for the “deal of the century” has been put off. The subject is absent in campaigning for the Israeli election in April, which focuses on looming corruption charges against Binyamin Netanyahu, the prime minister. The Oslo…

‘What Games Workshop argues is that more is more …’ Collectibles from the Warhammer universe.Photograph: PR L ast year saw a bloodbath on the high street. Debenhams closed 50 shops, Toys R Us, Maplin and Poundworld went into administration, and more retail space was lost than in any year since 2008,…