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Writing tagged: ‘LRB’

Duchenne facial expressions image
Demonstration of the mechanics of facial expression. Duchenne and an assistant ‘faradise’ the mimetic muscles of ‘the Old Man’. (Source: Wikipedia)

LRB letter: ‘The reaction economy’

On Charles Darwin’s use of photography in his book about human and animal emotions.

Published 19-Mar-2023
Filed under: Articles, Published Pieces, Writing Tags: correspondence, history, history of science, LRB, photography, science
Slug

Newsletter No. 21: ‘Positively sluggish’

Richard Mabey · Tim Dee · Mark Cocker · Amy Liptrot · Kathleen Jamie · Patti Smith · Alan Bennett · Melissa Harrison · Urban Birder · Patrick Wright · Clive James · and more…

Published 19-Feb-2021
Filed under: Writing Tags: Alan Bennett, Amy Liptrot, Clive James, Darwin book, insects, Kathleen Jamie, LRB, Mark Cocker, Melissa Harrison, Patrick Wright, Patti Smith, Richard Mabey, Tim Dee
Dipper

Newsletter No. 18: ‘169 in giraffe-years’

Julian Hoffman · CGP Grey · WG Sebald · Kathleen Jamie · Tim Dee · LRB · Alan Bennett · Caught by the River

Published 04-Jan-2020
Filed under: Writing Tags: Alan Bennett, Amy Liptrot, Backlisted podcast, Darwin book, Julian Hoffman, Kathleen Jamie, LRB, Roger Deakin, Tim Dee, W.G. Sebald
Weather-forecasting-frogs

LRB letter: ‘Weather-forecasting frogs’

On the unlikely 17th and 18th-century German fashion of keeping tree frogs to forecast the weather.

Published 18-Sep-2015
Filed under: Articles, Published Pieces, Writing Tags: correspondence, history, history of science, LRB, science
Pompeii
Pompeii shop with food-containers in counter.

LRB letter: ‘Ancient Refrigerators’

A possible solution to a well-known conundrum about Ancient Rome.

Published 19-Jan-2013
Filed under: Articles, Published Pieces, Writing Tags: archaeology, correspondence, history, history of science, LRB
Typewriter

The power of the anecdote

On the effectiveness of anecdotes and understatement in conveying catastrophic events.

Published 09-Dec-2012
Filed under: Articles, Writing Tags: LRB, on writing, W.G. Sebald
Charles Darwin

LRB letter: ‘Darwin’s Flatulence’

How Charles Darwin's legendary flatulence wasn't all it's cracked up to be.

Published 28-Jul-2011
Filed under: Articles, Published Pieces, Writing Tags: Charles Darwin, correspondence, history, history of science, LRB

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