This column about liquor on lockdown, first appeared in The Sunday Times on 12th April 20Crazy. You can read it here: https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/lifestyle/2020-04-12-booze-rules-all-bets-are-off-in-lockdown/
Sunday Times Column
The elegance of typos
Wrote this column for 42 Courses, on the Elegance of Typos. I’ve been working on it for ages, am totally obsessed with this subject. Hoping to add more to it as I go. Please click here to read: https://blog.42courses.com/home/2020/4/4/the-elegance-of-typos
Is this the end or the beginning?
This column first appeared here in The Sunday Times on 29th March 2020.
Where does humour come from?
Where do you think your sense of humour comes from? Is it genetic or learnt? Think about that while you click over here to read the column I wrote about it.
But why is loo paper selling out?
Wrote this column for 42courses.com, as shelves around the world are emptying of tee-pee in a bizarre episode of behavioural economics. And this is why.
The dangerous truth about sequins
Did you know that sequins are dangerous? And that beetles might just save us from them? I wrote a 4-minute read about it here.
The Microscope Guy
I wrote a 5-minute read about The Microscope guy (AKA Manu Prakash) from Design Indaba 2020. When he was six he stole his brother’s spectacles to build his first microscope. It did not go well for him (or his brother). Fortunately his next attempt went a little better. Read about it here on 42Courses. Which…
The Bird Architect
Jeanne Gang is a bird watcher stroke architect stroke smarty pants, stroke bee keeper. She has an architectural design firm in USA. Here’s the column I wrote for 42courses.com about the building she designed that helps save some of the 1 billion birds who fly into skyscrapers in N. America every year. It’s a building…
The Space Lady
I was lucky enough to get to go to The Design Indaba 2020 last week, and I wrote this column about The Space Lady (ie: Estonian Anna Talvi). She designs intergalactic space wear for astronauts, and has to think about some crazy things. You can find the column here on 42coursescom: https://blog.42courses.com/home/2020/2/28/i-thought-of-you-last-week These are the…
We’ll always have cabbage
This column appeared on page 64 of the October Taste Magazine I’m the eater in the family. Three of my sisters own restaurants and make catering on a massive scale look easy. And my mom is a wonderful cook, who made dinner for our oversized family of six kids, two adults and assorted friends and…