A blog about politics, science, archaeology, human evolution, jazz, culture, and the meaning of life by Michael Balter, a journalist and journalism professor based in Paris and New York (aka The Blog for People Who Don't Have Time to Read Blogs.)
Photo: Wikimedia Commons One morning in the 1870s, the Irish writer George Moore went for a walk in the Luxembourg Gardens of Paris. "I threw myself on a bench," he wrote in his memoirs, "and began to wonder if there was anything better in the world worth doing than to sit in an alley of clipped limes smoking, thinking of Paris a…
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Photo: Wikimedia Commons One morning in the 1870s, the Irish writer George Moore went for a walk in the Luxembourg Gardens of Paris. "I threw …
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In winter the fog settles over Venice, seeping into every crevice and circling the colonnades with chilly fingers. The tourists have fled, leaving th…
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Some readers have noted that they are confused trying to follow all of my reporting about University of California, Santa Barbara archaeologist Danie…
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Promise made, promise broken Last June, University of California, Santa Barbara archaeologist Danielle Kurin sued me for defamation for a series o…
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Franki Aymond (Courtesy of Rex Aymond) On February 22, 2019, Frances "Franki" Aymond took her own life with an overdose of opioids. She was…
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![The truth at last, or at least some of it, about Peter Rathjen, the U of Adelaide, the U of Melbourne, the U of Tasmania, etc. [Updated Sept 3, 2020: University of Melbourne "leader" finally speaks]](https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NtaT0gwizlA/X0YoPAu3_nI/AAAAAAAAK0U/HMTuK0240ssttw105h75kgbWbSaXS2v4wCNcBGAsYHQ/w680/Rathjen.jpg)
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