In Germany, he is something like William Shakespeare, Isaac Newton and Benjamin Franklin all rolled into one. But in America, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) enjoys […]
Before there were vaccines, before there were engines, before there was farming, there was astronomy. And there was poetry. The study of the stars and the […]
Equally famous for seminal novels like Kim, timeless children’s stories like The Jungle Book and commencement speech poems like “If—”, there are few greater names in […]
Last month our friend Brian Christopher mooted an artistic collaboration. The Shut Up & Draw! challenge asked artists to make one Post-It note piece of art […]
The Russians have a somewhat well-known proverb which says that “the morning is wiser than the evening.” You might wonder what that means, or you might […]
Limericks and Science Fiction are two classic genres that don’t really get enough interplay. But this narrow patch of overlap is fertile ground indeed. Few things […]