In 1864, when he was in his early 40s, the sceptical John Tyndall, physicist and emerging public intellectual, attended a séance. He wrote an amusing account of the episode in The Reader magazine, in which he reported that the spirits had dubbed him ‘The Poet of Science’.1 In this guise he preceded his friend Alfred Tennyson, who was not so described until after h…
Grape production in the United States is expanding rapidly as new growers are starting vineyards in all regions of the country. Commercial wine grape production in the Midwest, along with production in California, Oregon, and New York, has increased with the demand for high-quality wine. Commercial wine-grape production has a long history in the Midwestern states. Some of the earliest work with…
‘How big is the internet?’ asks an anonymous user in Jodel.1Reading thequestion on the display of a smartphone, amused by the presumed un-answerability of the question, one scrolls through the answers of otherusers: ‘Without the porn pages, it would fit on a CD’ or ‘324 bathtubs.’Since the app does not show this dialogue for longer than 24 hours,one takes a screenshot with a swift, …
f you choose not to read this and move straight on to In Homage to Darwin, we will not be offended. The story, however, of how two scientific dinosaurs came to cooperate in writing about their shared world view, gleaned from a combined total of more than 150 years of independent study of biology, needs, we feel, some explanation.Any two biologists can b…
When Nicholas Young hears that his grandmother, Su Yi, is on her deathbed, he rushes to be by her side - but he's not alone. The entire Shang-Young clan has convened from all corners of the globe to stake claim to their matriarch's massive fortune. With each family member vying to inherit Tyersall Park - a trophy estate on sixty-four prime acres in the heart of Singapore - Nicholas's childhood …
When Rachel Chu agrees to spend the summer in Singapore with her boyfriend, Nicholas Young, she envisions a humble family home, long drives to explore the island, and quality time with the man she might one day marry. What she doesn't know is that Nick's family home happens to look like a palace, that she'll ride in more private planes than cars, and that with one of Asia's most eligible bachel…
On the eve of her wedding to Nicholas Young, heir to one of the greatest fortunes in Asia, Rachel should be over the moon. She has a flawless Asscher-cut diamond from JAR, a wedding dress she loves more than anything found in the salons of Paris, and a fiance willing to sacrifice his entire inheritance in order to marry her. But Rachel still mourns the fact that her birthfather, a man she never…
With the growing population in the Southern States, the increase of mulattoes has been very great. Society does not frown upon the man who sits with his half-white child upon his knee whilst the mother stands, a slave, behind his chair. In nearly all the cities and towns of the Slave States, the real negro, or clear black, does not amount to more than one in four of the slave population. T…
We who are Tiverton born, though false ambition may have ridden us to market, or the world's voice incited us to kindred clamoring, have a way of shutting our eyes, now and then, to present changes, and seeing things as they were once, as they are still, in a certain sleepy yet altogether individual corner of country life. And especially do we delight in one bit of fine mental tracery, etc…