GUEST POST – Spare Beauty and Epic Literature in Iceland with Mark Cwik
Iceland is stark and stunning. It’s everything the travel brochures say it is: beautiful in a way that’s hard to imagine without visiting. When I travelled to Iceland a few years ago, I couldn’t get enough of the glaciers, waterfalls, geysers and gorges, the vast lava fields and the miles […]
GUEST BLOG – How Darwin Made Monkeys of Us All, by Mark Cwik
Upon first reading Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, the great 19th-century biologist Thomas Henry Huxley—later to be known as “Darwin’s Bulldog”—is reported to have told friends, “How extremely stupid not to have thought of that!” Huxley’s quote captures the essence of why I love to read the Origin. […]