Berlin Sans is an unorthodox typeface designed by David Berlow and assisted by Matthew Butterick. It has a storied history.

The farcical Scopes Trial in 1925 was a ground-breaking attempt to link science in education and religion. It sort of worked for the fundamentalist loonies and sort of didn’t.

Our current economic woes are not unprecedented. Neither is our inability to learn.

A 20 year study of nuns in the USA is a fascinating story in itself but it also throws some light on Alzheimers’.

A mainstay of News Media masquerading as News

Lots of people are out of work around the world. This piece won’t improve their lot.

Life is cheap. Art is cheaper.

A fasces symbolises strength through unity. It is not to be confused with faeces which is a different bundle of logs.

It is amazing to think this is still going on – it’s even more amazing to realise it’s ‘the good guys’ doing it.

The US Dictionary is Wrong – James Fenimore Cooper, who wrote The Last of The Mohicans, pronounced that ‘The people of The United States speak… incomparably better English than the people of the mother country’. Obviously the frontier attitude of you-are-wrong-because-we-are-right is a time honoured (honored) tradition.