Grow Fins

I moved this blog to Wordpress: http://growfins.blog . I had been pondering the move for a while, but the immediate reason was that Blogger...

Perhaps the old fiddle can teach the new mandolin a few tricks No musical instrument evokes a sense of mystery like a fiddle does. (The...

Yes, I brought the fiddle, and no, I did not play it. Tonight is my last night in Brest after an intensive and massively enjoyable c...

An interesting article on the current academic climate in the Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad : biologists complain about the pressure in t...

I'm in Malta now at a conference on economic advice to fisheries management, and one of the recurring themes is the loss of jobs when t...

As many , many websites show, Back To The Future II got a few things right - and many things wrong. What I find most intriguing is not s...

I've joined a new band: we're called Tobermore , we're mostly Dutch (our uillean piper is half Irish, half Flemish, and makes g...