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Nov 30, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Caspar Henderson |Olivia Potts |Sam Leith |Alexander Larman
Life on Earth is not a zero-sum affair. Most plants only exist thanks to partnerships with fungal filaments in the soil which mobilize essential nutrients for them and receive sugars made from sunlight in exchange. Without those partnerships, humans and most other land animals which depend on plants either directly or at one or two removes would not exist. Cooperation gives rise to a living world that is vastly more complex, productive and beautiful than the sum of its parts.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
spectator.com.au | Caspar Henderson
The Serviceberry: An Economy of Gifts and Abundance Allen Lane, pp.128, 14.99 Life on Earth is not a zero-sum affair. Most plants only exist thanks to partnerships with fungal filaments in the soil which mobilise essential nutrients for them and receive sugars made from sunlight in exchange. Without those partnerships, humans and most other land animals which depend on plants either directly or at one or two removes would not exist.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
spectator.co.uk | Caspar Henderson
Life on Earth is not a zero-sum affair. Most plants only exist thanks to partnerships with fungal filaments in the soil which mobilise essential nutrients for them and receive sugars made from sunlight in exchange. Without those partnerships, humans and most other land animals which depend on plants either directly or at one or two removes would not exist. Cooperation gives rise to a living world that is vastly more complex, productive and beautiful than the sum of its parts.
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Nov 23, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Neal Pollack |Olivia Potts |Caspar Henderson |Sam Leith
Both Jaguar and Volvo released online marketing campaigns that went extremely viral this week. One was a huge success and one was a legendary ad bust. But they’re both absolutely terrible, for very different reasons. Jaguar offered a hideous future shock of an ad that featured a cast of multicultural unisex models wearing bright, horrifying, ugly outfits, wielding paintbrushes and ball-peen hammers.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | A.S.H. Smyth |Maggie Fergusson |Alex Peake-Tomkinson |Caspar Henderson
Anyone reading this review will know a few fundamentals of the Smileyverse: spymaster George Smiley is podgy, spectacled, middle-aged, soft-spoken, wears ill-fitting clothes, can vanish in a crowd and is routinely cuckolded by his wife over the course of all “his” novels. Thanks to the success of John le Carré’s novels about him, the Smiley canon is now (we might assume) unchangeable: so, making a virtue of necessity, novelist Nick Harkaway has gone back to his Golden Age.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Bridget Phetasy |Olivia Potts |Caspar Henderson |Sam Leith
Last spring, a marketing grunt at Bud Light sent TikTok star Dylan Mulvaney, a trans woman, custom cans of beer featuring her picture. As intended, Mulvaney posted about the beer on social media, igniting a firestorm and a boycott of the brand. Men revolted. Bars stopped serving it. Bud Light lost its status as the top-selling beer in America; it’s only back up to number three today. I became aware of the left’s man problem when I wrote for Playboy back in 2015.
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Sep 28, 2024 | 
editorialedomani.it | Caspar Henderson
Il 28 maggio 2008 una massa di ghiaccio larga cinque chilometri e alta più di un chilometro e mezzo si staccò dal ghiacciaio Ilulissat, nella Groenlandia occidentale. Per settantacinque minuti si divise in blocchi enormi, alti fino a mille metri, che rivoltandosi e rombando scivolavano nell’oceano. A un certo punto, dalle acque ne emerse uno che somigliava a un cetaceo di dimensioni incredibili.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
corriere.it | Caspar Henderson
Questo libro è figlio dello stupore. Un giorno, in una riserva naturale sulla costa del Norfolk, seguivo la migrazione del piovanello maggiore, un uccello piccolo e tozzo i cui stormi si trasferiscono ogni inverno dai luoghi di cova dell’Artico alla Gran Bretagna. Quando i piovanelli sprintano e virano tutti insieme in volo sembrano scomparire e riapparire, a seconda che vengano colpiti dalla luce sul lato chiaro o su quello scuro del loro corpo.
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
spectator.com.au | Caspar Henderson
Sing Like Fish: How Sound Rules Life Under Water Scribe, pp.336, 16.99 In his satirical Devil’s Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce defined the ocean as ‘a body of water occupying about two thirds of a world made for man – who has no gills’. Bierce may have been right to poke fun at human arrogance, but he underestimated the importance of the seas. Averaging almost 3,700 metres (12,000ft) deep, the ocean constitutes around nine tenths of the habitable space on our planet.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
spectator.co.uk | Caspar Henderson
Text size Line Spacing Comments Share Share Caspar Henderson The song of the bearded seal and other marvels Linkedin Messenger Email Sing Like Fish: How Sound Rules Life Under Water Amorina Kingdon Scribe, pp. 336, £16 In his satirical Devil’s Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce defined the ocean as ‘a body of water occupying about two thirds of a world made for man – who has no gills’. Bierce may have been right to poke fun at human arrogance, but he underestimated the importance of the seas....
