Knowledge
The pleasure of not knowing
A few years ago the podcaster Lex Fridman published a list of books that he was hoping to read in…
A rounded education
The encyclopaedias of the past were volumes to be savoured – even if they often contained unsavoury views, says Rose George
What is the only London Underground station to share no letters with ‘mackerel’?
Don’t worry, this isn’t a piece about fishing quotas. It’s about the word ‘mackerel’ itself. Specifically, the fact that St…
The need to know
It’s scarcely possible to open a newspaper or magazine these days without reading an article about how the latest technological…
