A thought generated by Oliver Burkeman's column in today's Guardian Weekend, which has interesting resonances with this post I made some while ago about people undervaluing their own skills.

Burkeman is considering Rothbard's Law: "People tend to specialise in what they're worst at" and suggests that what it's getting at is this:
[I]f a talent has ( Read more... )

Okay, dr rdrs, today my pick of amazing London things ticks boxes for two categories at least: gardens (although I don't this one really counts as rus in urbe exactly, too cultivated and useful perhaps), and Long Tradition of The Healing Arts.

Yes, it's the Chelsea Physic Garden! [A] unique living collection of around 5,000 different edible, useful ( Read more... )

Level playing field unfair to boyzzzz: reprise of a perennial 'terribly poor stuff' favourite that signally fails to take into account the various factors that militated against female academic success within recent living memory - up to and including severer marking of their 11+ papers because, o dear, there were fewer selective schools for gurlz ( Read more... )