Rachel Laudan

I hate to go on about this but the internet connection is slow and iffy yet again.  Thanks to all who have commented.  I can approve the posts but I will have to reply by posting because I the reply command is not working.  Sorry about this.

McDonald’s, the world’s largest restaurant chain, opened its first store in Iceland in 1993. The first person on the island to consume a Big Mac was then Prime Minister David Oddsson, who later became governor of the central bank before his dismissal by the current ruling coalition earlier this year. The island has three McDonald’s [...]

I’m probably the last person in the world to see Hokusai’s wave in waving rice (duh), since these kinds of stories fly round the web in a moment.  But if you are another laggard, click on this link which is one of the more informative one, or just google “Inakadate” or “rice field art in [...]