The Official Website of Chennai Super Kings – Players & Staff
Does this man have the greatest name in the history of sport?
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Times Online – Homeopathy by the (mind-boggling) numbers
‘The arnica is diluted so much that there is only one molecule of it per 7 million billion billion billion billion pills.
[…] If [...]
Damn Cool Pics: The Living Bridges of Cherrapunji
Bridges made from the growing roots of rubber trees.
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YouTube – Kseniya Simonova – Sand Animation (Україна має талант / Ukraine’s Got Talent)
real time 'animation' with sand by a contestant on Ukraine's Got Talent. via Design Observer.
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All About H. Hatterr is a novel I bought after seeing it recommended somewhere — the complete review, I think. It is a modernist novel written in 1948 in a colloquial Indian English laced with bits of slang, Shakespeare, legal jargon and so on. I’m not in a position to judge the relationship between the [...]
Two Lives is a biography of Seth’s great-uncle and aunt. They met in the 30s in Berlin when Shanti Seth was studying dentistry and took lodgings with the (Jewish) Caro family. Henny Caro was one of the daughters of the house and at the time was engaged to someone else; but after the war they [...]
I made ‘rechad’ spice paste today. It’s a recipe from Goa; Goa was a Portuguese colony, and the name is apparently from the Portuguese recheado, ‘to stuff’, because the Goans use it to stuff fish*. I used some of it tonight to make a particularly good Goan seafood curry called ambot tik which uses the [...]
I was watching Antiques Roadshow at the weekend and some chap brought in an C18th* English silver sauce boat. The expert got excited because it was a rare early example; apparently before that point English food rarely had sauces but it was about then that some people started employing French cooks.
So far, reasonable enough and [...]
I found this article in the Independent interesting. There’s a film coming out in France called Indigènes about “the 300,000 Arab and north African soldiers who helped to liberate France in 1944.” Apparently about half the French army in 1944 was African or Arab. The director and producer, both French of North African descent, “hope [...]