David Aitken

I Won’t Dance, Don’t Ask Me by David Aitken

It was a young woman who started it.  She began to dance 'fervently' in a street in Strasbourg in France, and before anyone knew...

How Do You Paint a Pandemic?

Someone once gave me a useful piece of advice about art.  "When you see a Picasso painting of a woman with eyes on both...

Herd Immunity for Rustlers? by David Aitken

If you were being pressed for an answer on a television quiz show -- one of those where possible responses are already displayed on...

If Time Stops, Return Your Watch

On the edge of a black hole in space, time stops.  If we move away after a few minutes, a million years might have...

We are Living in an Age of Blame

One morning at his home in Paris, Alfred Nobel was understandably surprised to read his own obituary in a French newspaper. Not only because he...

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