Vast Reuters info-diagram of China and how to understand it: not that I can actually get it to scroll down or anything
(courtesy jamie at blood and treasure, naturally)
Category: Antarctica
piflheim
how to sustain an intellectual conversation (in your head)
one thread of the scott/amundsen post refers (without saying so) all the way back to something kogan wrote in why music sucks in 1989 or so: which i have been puzzling away at ever since — explanation in the FT footnotes when i get round to em (i hope and plan)
it’s a miserable jumble
rough notes on scott, amundsen, class, culture and conflict, 100 and a wee bit years after ski-ing and dogs won the norwegians the pole