Sick, Jonathan Cohn I was browsing around The Book Passage in Corte Madera with a Christmas gift voucher from my mum when I saw this […]
Month: February 2009
Banff and Lake Louise
We spent the last week in Banff in Alberta, Canada to celebrate Greg’s 60th birthday as well as Mrs. V’s 30th. We split our time […]
Gang Leader For A Day
Gang Leader For A Day, Sudhir Venkatesh Whilst studying for his PhD. in sociology at the University of Chicago, Sudhir Venkateshchose to take a slightly […]
Three Cups Of Tea
Three Cups Of Tea, Greg Mortensen Finding himself stranded and close to death after an attempted summit of K2 in the Karakoram range of the […]
Greg’s 60th Birthday
We took Friday off to head up to the cabin to celebrate Greg’s 60th birthday with him; we didn’t expect to be greeted with close […]
Crocodiles Infiltrate Queensland Towns
Mexican Central Bank Currency Intervention
Since the events toward the end of last summer emerging market currencies have been taking an absolute beating. Mexico, Brazil, Hungary, you name it… The […]