One can understand the frustration. Decades after the genetics of Pacific peoples collided with high-calorie, low-nutrition (i.e., “junk”) food, leading to astronomical rates of obesity and all its lethal effects (especially diabetes and heart disease), little to no progress has… Read More ›
Miriam Hoskyns, who assisted so much with The Wiring Diagram, sent me the following video of her husband being interviewed on BBC4’s “Face The Press” in 1984. The presenter is Anthony Howard, and with him are Hugo Young of The Guardian and Michael Elliot… Read More ›
I received great positive feedback about my book, Six Nine, Two Ten, but one complaint I heard more than once was that I didn’t include any recipes. It had never crossed my mind when writing it that people would want the… Read More ›
Yay! After a year I have finished “The Wiring Diagram,” which is about a historical document from the papers of Margaret Thatcher at Churchill College of the University of Cambridge. The Kindle version of it will be free for the… Read More ›
After almost year of work, my new book is almost done! Its title is “The Wiring Diagram, The One-Page Beacon for Britain by John Hoskyns, Thatcher’s Top Policy Advisor.” Today I received the printed proof, and as soon as I… Read More ›
This weekend my friend Malcolm took a group of us out on Lake Norman, and the weather was gorgeous, especially at sunset. As we sailed and motored around the lake, Malcolm put on some tunes. Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald… Read More ›
I ran across this funny bit of graphic design today while looking through Spotify for “Fakarouni” by the great Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. (Both her name and the titles of her songs have various spellings in English.) Above are the cover images… Read More ›
I received my first Kirkus review today, for Six Nine, Two Ten. I am very happy with the review, which was not guaranteed to be positive. In fact, given that reviews are often negative, Kirkus allows authors to decide if reviews is ever published. But… Read More ›
A new study by an enormous team of scientists, published in the journal eLife, shows that the Netherlands has, on average, the tallest men in the world (a bit over six feet), and Latvia the tallest women (around five feet, seven inches)…. Read More ›
Imagine my surprise to see that someone read every page of my invertebrate glossary one day via Kindle. That’s great; I sure hope I helped some student pass his or her final exams. But isn’t it strange to read so many pages… Read More ›
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