Caroline Crampton
Caroline Crampton
Caroline Crampton
Caroline Crampton is a writer and a podcaster. She writes non-fiction books about the world and how we live in it — The Way to the Sea (2019) and A Body Made of Glass (2024).
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Thirteen things this Thursday that I have read, watched, listened to or otherwise found noteworthy.
The Polish edition of my book A Body Made of Glass is published today by Wydawnictwo Czarne, in a translation by Martyna Tomczak. It has a new cover, designed by Liza Korolova:This is my first time seeing one of my books published in...
A Wikipedia editor has uncovered what looked like a decade-long attempt at self-promotion by a minor American composer, David Woodard. Until recently, Woodard's entry was the most-translated on the entire site, appearing in 335 languages...
I don't at all understand how this video was made, but I enjoyed flying around a miniaturised Baltic state nonetheless.Source: Kuriositas.You can also get my links by signing up for my weekly link digest, Thursday Thirteen.
Thirteen things this Thursday that I have read, watched, listened to or otherwise found noteworthy.
In Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L. Sayers, the Dowager Duchess is always getting her quotations confused. But this isn't a character trait deployed only to indicate absent-mindedness; as this analysis shows, her substitutions generally...
Photo: G. L. Kohuth/Michigan State UniversityI promise I am interested in how this new innovation will help to save bees from bacteria, but I am mostly sharing this because of the photo of Maple the detection dog in her beekeeping...
A thought provoking list. As a perpetual diary-abandoner, I'm trying to let this one inspire me:"I regret that I have never kept a journal, especially in my 20s. Nothing fancy; I just wish I had kept a regular list of what I was eating,...
I have made no secret of my obsession with pipe organs (my favourite podcast is still Hot Pipes). I am new to Walter Martin's radio show, but I liked his organ episode very much.Episode 48: The Organ EpisodeIt’s time to talk about...
I believe I have heaped praise upon data journalism outfit The Pudding before, but I'm doing it again because the design of this piece about the best way to dice an onion is so clever. They made a red onion font!Dicing an Onion, the...