You won’t hear it said in many publishing houses these days, where those editors and managements who have survived the 10% cull in their numbers following the credit crunch now appear frozen in the headlights of the onrushing digital revolution. But from the point of view of authors, these are potentially exciting [...]
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Counting my latest, The Miracle Tree, Google says it’s near 130 million. Start reading. Inside Google Books: Books of the world, stand up and be counted! All 129,864,880 of you.. Marilyn Tower, owner of Abbotsford’s Tower Foods, with some of the products seized from Vancouver’s Home Grow-In Grocer by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency due to alleged inadequate labelling. Credit: Doug Shanks — From the Weekender Home Grow-In, that cool little corner store on Columbia and 18th Ave that Spring Gillard and I podcasted about [...]
You may or may not like Sean Penn as an actor (although admit it, he’s almost always great) or as a person (let’s not overlook the fact that you might well have gone off on a paparazzi or two if you found yourself married to Madonna), but you have to admire his singular [...]
What to do when you’re retired? Here’s one man’s answer. Inspired perhaps by Voltaire. Italian creates world’s largest maze | World news | The Guardian. Here’s a wild idea: a crisis like Haiti can be solved by letting people grow their way out of it. This comes from a man who wants to be president of the country (excerpted from a talk with the Montreal Gazette): If $1 billion of the $11 billion pledged by international donors was put toward agriculture, [...] I did not just fall off the turnip truck. But these turnips did. A whole whacking pile of them, silently reeking away at an obscure street end in Ladner outside Vancouver. Why? What does it all mean? Is is nefarious? Is someone dumping turnips illegally? Are the producers trying to cut supply to drive up [...]
At last, they’re finally going to prove it. YOU’RE not the weird one…it’s that parallel universe you’ve always suspected. The giant atom-smasher near Geneva is ready to rock. Cern researchers will sift through the subatomic debris of proton collisions for signs of extra dimensions and hitherto invisible particles that will bolster belief in “supersymmetry”, a [...] Watch your land carefully, folks in countries with room to grow. The wealthy want your soil. “Food security will dwarf climate change as the world’s most pressing issue in the next few decades, and New Zealand may have seen the first signs of rich or powerful nations trying to secure food supplies for their people.” NZ feels [...]
The U.K. government plans to launch a “grow your own” revolution by encouraging people to set up temporary allotments or community gardens on land awaiting development or other permanent use. via Grow your own food revolution plans to seed unused land | UK news | guardian.co.uk. |
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