The Italian for a butterfly is a farfalla , and so the pasta that looks like a butterfly is called farfalle . One can think of this as bea...

  Tall? Sometimes an etymology is so obvious that I can't believe that I've never noticed it, and I marvel at my own duncedom. The G...

  I have, in my solitude, taken up playing the violin. Fiddling while Rome does not burn. I have long suspected that the only thing I truly ...

  For some reason unknown to me vaccines have been much in the news of late. It's all the fault of a fellow called Edward Jenner (1749-...