La Beet

Before I start my round I want to complain! About you! I can see from my statistics that I have a steadily (okay, ever so slowly) growing group of readers. But so few of you ever bother to comment on my posts? Now, this last post about the Nobel Laureates. Honestly, a good chunk of […]

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Below are all the laureates since the year of my birth. I think I’ve read less than half of them, and some of them - like the Quasimodo guy from my yob - I’ve never even heard of. Also, I find it strange that so many of them are best known for writing drama. Except […]

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Wauw, for the first time in years I’ve not only heard about the winner of the Nobel prize in literature before, I’ve actually read him and (just went into the living room and counted) actually own three of his books. His name is J. M. G. Le Clezio - here’s the Wikipedia article and here’s […]

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When we were on our tour of the US last year, one of our favourite states was Louisiana. We found the swamps beautiful and enchanting beyond belief and adored New Orleans (oh, the grilled oysters…). We wanted to take a tour of the swamps and decided that we didn’t want one of the “see an […]

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Slate, New York Times, The American Prospect, Megan McArdle and a lot of sites that they’re linking to discuss the Obama speech. They seem to agree that it was a good speech, but not fantastic. He is an oratory master and has made so many good speeches during his brief career, that he’s made it […]

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This picture of a very impressive hydrangea at Nyman’s in East Sussex has absolutely nothing to do with the rest of this post. I just had to show it to you, it’s so beautiful!
I have almost come to a point where I don’t want to come across any more interesting blogs. But unless I stop […]

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Now, what kind of idiot does a thing like this? Thank you to Capac for the pointer.
I’m always going on about TED (Technology Entertainment Design). As the happy owner of an Iphone I have taken podcasts to a higher level and sit on buses, trains and airplanes etc. and LEARN things in a very entertaining […]

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Upon surfing the news circuit, I stumbled upon a really interesting article on CNN. It’s about the positive sides of city slums, favelas, shantytowns, or whatever they’re called in different parts of the world. It’s really, really interesting, and, honestly, I didn’t have a clue about this.  Do read it all the way to the […]

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I’ve recently added a new blog to my “daily rounds” (or weekly, it depends…). It’s on The Atlantic’s website by Megan McArdle. This woman can write. And, tada, she’s not a journalist (and not an economist either)!
Her blog is supposedly an economy blog, but if that’s economy I want to be an economist too. Actually, […]

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Together with a phone call from my Mom & Dad and a sweet e-mail from Emil, Dane and David made my birthday into a lovely day of indulgence, Néné style.
It was a beautiful sunny day – don’t usually have many of those back in Denmark! – and I had yummy brunch with cards and presents. […]

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