Welcome to a Hump Day (“Il giro di boa della settimana” in Italian): Wednesday, October 28, 2026 and National Chocolate Day . Here are some profiteroles from one of my favorite restaurants in Paris, ...

Nathaniel Comfort is identified by Wikipedia as “an American historian specializing in the history of biology. He is an associate professor in the Institute of the History of Medicine at ...

We are of course lacking readers’ wildlife photos, though I don’t know why. If you have some good ones, please send them in. We do have a batch today, though, sent in by reader Jan ...

Although John McWhorter may have been taken on board the New York Times as a reliably “heterodox” columnist (remember his bestselling critique of wokeism Woke Racism: How a New Religion has Betrayed ...

Dogs are used by first responders and the military for a number of tasks.  Their keen sense of smell, speed, and keen hearing give them advantages over even drones or robots, and, according to ...

The other day I expressed dismay that NYT writer John McWhorter produced a piece heartily endorsing land acknowledgments (“LA”s). That was out of character for a man who got a lot of ...