I've done another little video essay with the splendid people at Little White Lies. It's about the rhetorical trope of epistrophe. ...

  Pancallism is the belief that everything is beautiful, or at least everything that exists, which is quite a lot of things.  The idea, occu...

  Today is, of course, the 74th anniversary of the Kenneth Arnold UFO sighting . The event is celebrated by lexicographers everywhere becaus...

  The week is a curious thing: the division of our lives into a revolving, unfinishing cycles of seven days. Especially as seven days bears ...

  The nomenclature of England is a foggy thing, cunningly designed to confuse foreigners, who will wonder, in their simple foreign way, why ...

  The original logo There's a website where you can buy an Apple Macintosh for 40p. Well, in fact, you can buy three for £1.20. That amo...

  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...