Eating in Sweden is really just a series of heartbreaks.

For a long time, I'd been vaguely fascinated by the idea that Charles Lindbergh flew the Atlantic and Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs in the same summer.

Science has been quite embattled. It's the most important thing there is. An arts graduate is not going to fix global warming. They may do other valuable things, but they are not going to fix the planet or cure cancer or get rid of malaria.

My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children carry.

The remarkable position in which we find ourselves is that we don't actually know what we actually know.

To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.

Des Moines is like your typical American city; it's just these concentric circles of malls, built outward from the city.