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...Santa Claus is a natural wonder, for who else could conjure the logistical miracle that children enjoy each year?...
...Vacheron released a model celebrating the work of the 16th-century cartographer Gerardus Mercator back in 1994 – its latest pieces focus on the scientific discoveries of the naturalists (among them Darwin...
...Having chosen a high-IQ sperm donor for her first two children, Darwin and Zanzibar, she considers her third, Lucy, fathered by her tree surgeon partner Wade, to be intellectually inferior....
...One Twitter user reported that she’d edited her parents’ missive to remove the number of funerals they’d attended....
...November 5 to 10; further information here December Events Zürcher Samichlausschwimmen (Züricher Santa Claus Swim) Every year, some 300 brave souls don Father Christmas hats — or more complete Santa...
...May 2 to 12; further information and tickets here ‘Jenůfa’, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma In collaboration with the UK’s Royal Opera House, a production by German stage director Claus Uth of Janáček’s classic...
...[‘SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO TOWN BY JACKSON FIVE PLAYING] Lilah Raptopoulos OK. I’d love to zoom out for a minute now and just ask what is going on with Christmas music? Big picture....
...“The bauble really is the spirit of her; she would always bring weird and wonderful things that she’d find to decorate the tree....
..., the Santa Claus Village is open for business every day of the year; and then there is Kari Voutilainen....
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...It’s “experience dining”, d’you see? Personally, I’d rather “experience” waterboarding....
...He’s an expert on dirt, too, and tells me that the soil in Nigeria and on Darwin Island are matching shades of red....
...Even Santa Claus makes a list and checks it twice, and I cannot imagine preparing for Christmas without a thick wad of checklists....
...Now try this As we are reaching the end of the year, I thought we’d use this space to look back on some of my favourite things of the year....
...Who billionaire’d it better?...
...Even Darwin’s extensive writings on evolution are, he vouches, examples of long-form awe, studded with references to wonder, vastness and mystery....
...R&D is amortised, assets do depreciate and need updating and replacement, and Ocado’s operations are high intensity in this respect....
...At lower altitudes we’d seen llamas and alpacas, but up here, vicuñas largely have the place to themselves....
...But that doesn’t change the fact that if you’d put money into almost any dotcom company in 1999, you’d have lost most of it over the next two years....
...“These data are too hot to handle,” said Claus Vistesen, an economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics....
...Not only would these interventions have very little (and uncertain) effects on the target trait, but we wouldn’t know what else we’d be selecting for....
...In 1840, Charles Darwin fitted wheels to his armchair and used it to zip between specimen drawers....
...“I’d be like, ‘Family, it’s crazy! Ever since I got vaccinated, mosquitoes don’t bite me no more!” They laughed, hard. “It’s wild....
...Britain is the land of Newton, Darwin, Fleming, Faraday, Franklin, Gilbert and Berners Lee. The home of three of the world’s top 10 universities....
...The “Melon” dish, for instance, comprised shaved ribbons of Piel di Sapo (Santa Claus) melon on plump oyster meat with an ample serving of Baeri caviar in a silky ponzu dashi....
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