Category: creativity

  • Meet the Brunkeberg Ridge Tunnel. Stockholm has a ridge running through it, thanks to ice age shenanigans. As the city grew up on either side of it, crossing it was a pain, especially in the age of power by horses. Then this genius entrepreneur talked the powers that be into letting him build a tunnel…

  • Walking from the bus station to our inn, we stumbled upon a statue in a small square. It was a monument to science fiction great H.G. Wells, who wrote War of the Worlds in 1895 while living in Woking. That novel, one of the earliest alien invasion novels (Martians invade Earth), and its author weren’t…

  • Look, I can quit anytime, OK? I don’t have to buy a blank book every time I see a new color/style. Just yesterday I bought an inexpensive one (less than $4!) to take traveling. Does this mean the spiral bound is my travel journal? Oh no no no. The travel journal is the hard-back green…