John Whitehead (1860-1899) was a British explorer who once a year starting in 1885 tried to climb Mount Kinabalu and finally succeeded in 1888,...

The Varied Tit is a rare species in Shanghai – this was the first time I ever saw one, even though it is relatively...

I promise that this is the third and last in a series of posts covering a recent trip to Afghanistan. As the previous two...

Sometimes marketing people wake up sweating, mostly after having nightmares about outdated logos and designs. While I am not a marketing person myself, even...

If – like me – at some point in your life you have decided that washing white and colorful clothes is not really worth...

Like the recently posted entry on birding Kabul, this isn’t really much of a birding post – it features just two or three really...

Sunbirds are basically hummingbirds without any danger of Trumpism or MAGA ideology. And they think in meters and kilograms rather than in weird non-matching...

Right. I did not actually go to Afghanistan for birding. I had another reason for that, trying to support a local NGO and its...