TripAdvisor reveals Australia's best beaches
Male models in ‘right place at the right time’ to pull teens to safety from frozen Central Park pond
Photo: Great gray owl goes hunting TreeHugger
We think we know all about the world. But we don't. That's why it's pretty surprising to learn that there may be a new continent underneath New Zealand
This in a letter to her editor at Macmillan, Richard Garnett,
'It worried me terribly when you told me I was only an amateur writer and I asked myself, how many books do you have to write and how many semi-colons do you have to discard before you lose your amateur status?'
and this to Richard Ollard her editor at Collins, where Penelope Fitzgerald had moved with her subsequent Booker winning novel Offshore after feeling unwanted at Duckworth..
'The TLS was also very kind to The Bookshop and said it was a novella in the tradition of Henry James, not a selling point perhaps.'
How A Writer Can Be Harrowing Without Giving Her Soul Away
Finding essays outside one’s personal experience “would be work that was harrowing in another sense of the word, which originally referred to preparing fields for planting by breaking up the soil. A true harrowing essay would dig deeper, ultimately performing a generative function.”
MALE PRIVILEGE: Women’s life expectancy on track to hit 90 in some nations. “The men who could look forward to the longest lives in 2015 were in Switzerland, Iceland and Australia — all within a few decimal points of an 81 year lifespan.” Women eat more butter ...
Cooking with butter may be more heart-healthy than vegetable oil: Study
An algae that survived two years in outer space may hold the secret to growing food on Mars and Maroubra Mahon pool ...
- Harry Mathews in The Paris Review;
Podcast -
This week’s music is “I’m Gonna Live Forever (If it Kills Me)” by William Tyler
SEXLESS MARRIAGES: A threat to the planet
HMM: Men, Is Exercise Putting a Damper on Your Sex Life? Note that the exercise here — “running, cycling, and triathlon” — all involves lengthy cardio.
Opal card data turns up surprise for Sydneysiders wanting 30-minute commute
…Rolling Down the River C'mon back to the raft with Huck and Jim
Biologists find weird cave life that may be 50,000 years oldAssociated Press
NATURAL ANTIOXIDANT could prevent liver disease. I’ve been taking PQQ for a couple of months for its reported cardiac benefits. This is a plus. It’s cheap. I take it with NAC,
and, of course, CoQ10.
The CoQ10, by the way, is the supplement that seems to have the
biggest impact. Everyone I’ve gotten to try it, from the Insta-Wife and
Insta-Daughter to my younger brother says they have noticeably better
energy levels with it.
“This glass fits around your nose so you can smell wine as you drink it.” NB: the link serves up some noise to you.
“The state’s manual for execution procedures, which was revised last month, says attorneys of death row inmates, or others acting on their behalf, can obtain pentobarbital or sodium Pentothal and give them to the state to ensure a smooth execution.” Link here, that is Arizona
Mulberry leaf extract could reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes The Conversation
Why Nothing Works Anymore Atlantic
Constant Phone Checkers Are Totally Strung Out MIT Technology Review