Drag queen stories: the periodic table

Yesterday, 7th of February, was the Periodic Table Day. You didn't think I had forgotten, did you? You know I love talking about this wonder of chemical systematisation. But this time it is Lana Vuli who does, with an adaptation of my 12-y/o ramblings. Lana, drag queen scientist since January 2017, lets you know how …

‘A Little History of the World’

GOMBRICH, Ernst H. A Little History of the World. 1936 [Original title: Eine kurze Weltgeschichte für junge Leser. Translation by Caroline Mustfill] ‘Imagine the full story of human habitation on our planet being told in such flowing prose that you want to read it out loud.’ I beg to differ. Gombrich did write a book …

Ramblings about the periodic table

[Speech for the Consecutive Interpreting course, 2007] Dear classmates, I’m going to take the advantage of the centenary of the death of Mendeleev —who must be in hell for laughing at the right theory of one of his contemporary chemists—, I resolved to ramble about the periodic table of the elements. I’m not going to tell the …