The first sound recording was not of music. Thomas Edison, being a man of science and not a literary man, and most likely caught out by the fact that...
A Friday off. It’s noon by the time I get out of bed, the worse for wear, one by the time I get in the shower. By two o’clock,...
Snow Day 5:00 am I wake up, look out the window. A couple of inches on the ground, but no snow falling. I check my phone for news from work -...
Every Thursday I used to take 3 or 4 trains from my home in Zoshigaya in north-central Tokyo to work at Center Kita station on the outskirts of Yokohama....
by Tal Clapp My parents like to tell a story. When I was a few months old they left me in the care of my grandparents (I...
From time to time I come across an article about the likelihood of turbulence bringing down a plane, or what went wrong when a jet fell from the sky...
