Bill Weir welcomes you to ‘The Wonder List’
I happened to be wallowing in a fit of premature nostalgia the day my bosses asked what sort of TV show I wanted to make. “A show about change,” I…
Month: November 2014
Am I the jerk on your airplane?
I do the same thing on trains, in waiting rooms and, as best as I can recall, high school cafeteriaslowering my eyes, avoiding any contact, trying to discourage anyone from…
Nightclubs for literature? Why book selling is booming in Taiwan
While some people are slowly walking home through the neon-lit streets, or getting ready to hit the club scene, others are on their way to a more unusual nocturnal hangouta…
Revealed: Unseen photos of Churchill, Astaire, Garbo and others
“There was a rumor that there were archives in the Condé Nast offices in New York that nobody had known about,” says Todd Brandow, a photography curator. “It was difficult…
Incredible images capture dazzling symmetry of Iran’s mosques
With beautiful mosaics and stained glass framed by powerful architecture, the buildings are astounding. Their fine detail has been captured in a series of breathtaking photographs by Mohammad Reza Domiri…
Zara Phillips targets Olympic gold with baby Mia by her side
But come back quickly she did. Eight and a half months after Mia Grace Tindall — the 16th in line for the throne in Britain — was born on January…
Gold mine of cheeky medieval doodles show ancestors just as silly as us
“It’s amazing to think that people doodled in medieval times in a similar way to how they doodle today,” says Dr Erik Kwakkel, a book historian at Leiden University, Holland….