We added some new cool videos to Vita Aquatica: Jonathan Bird focuses on particular families of mostly aquatic organisms: Cnidarians, Arthropods and Seahorses and pipefish Roger Barnes explains his philosophy behind dinghy cruising We snorkeled with a friendly wrasse during our summer vacation I finally published a short video on my experience with the sidemount […]
The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected. — G. K. Chesterton
The family is like a little kingdom that creates and loves its own citizens. “The first things must be the very fountains of life, love and birth and babyhood; and these are always covered fountains, flowing in the quiet courts of the home.” — from G. K. Chesterton
“The number of males giving birth on rise, still well below 50%.”
I have turned this chapter into something like a defence of interviewers, because I really think they are made to bear too much of the burden of the bad developments of modern journalism. But I am very far from meaning to suggest that those bad developments are not very bad. So far from wishing to […]
I have never managed to lose my old conviction that travel narrows the mind. At least a man must make a double effort of moral humility and imaginative energy to prevent it from narrowing his mind. Indeed there is something touching and even tragic about the thought of the thoughtless tourist, who might have stayed […]