Crotchety Man

squeezing in squeezing out

‘Przecisk’ seems to be the Polish for “pipe jacking”, “moling” or “ramming” ...

The most famous tummy of the western world?

If your streaming service thinks you might like a track with a funny name, by a band you have never heard of, you have to listen to it, don’t you? And if it turns out to tickle the senses, i...

The London skyline through a natural night filter

The final of this year’s Eurovision Song Contest was held last night. I didn’t watch it. As far as I am concerned, there hasn’t...

Seeing is believing. Or is it? Is what we see real, or is there a worrying gap between perception and reality? Philosophers have been arguing about this for centuries. One thing is certain: optical illusions and hallucinations exi...