He discussed how the run game improved over the season and also said very nice things about Chuba Hubbard. You will want to hold your nose when you do it, but much like Rachaad White or James Conner last year, Hubbard is going to be a volume-based RB2 next year tha...
Case in point, the bad flooding we’ve been having the overwhelms place like Union Station and even Drake’s mansion. It didn’t help we had the wettest summer on record. The film festival has come and gone as it does every September. One frequent visitor is Guillermo Del Toronto, who...
No other dance moves have been as questionable as these ones (until Drake came along, at least). Elaine holds a pretty great toast which is grandly ended with the Patsy Cline saying, “Here’s to those who wish us well and those who don’t can go to hell.” Of course, this is El...
Wagerhad entered the Drake Passage about a month earlier. She had been accompanied by seven other Royal Navy ships, all part of a secret squadron on a wartime mission heading for Patagonia on the west coast of South America. A principal hazard in sailing westward in the Drake Passage is tha...
You have written about several fascinating people, from Eleanor Cobham to Francis Drake, who was your favourite subject and why? Whoever I’m writing about at any point in time becomes my new favourite subject, but if I have to choose one, Owen Tudor has a special place as the one who ...
“There’s this story that we’ve had in the literature that the brain regions that predict fear are things like the amygdala, or the orbital frontal cortex area, or the brainstem,” said Ajay Satpute, an associate professor of psychology at Northeastern University. “Those are thought to be...
Precisely. One of the most amazing things I learned this past school year was that depth perception is learned. The example used in one of my books was about an African tribe who lived in the jungle, so that they never saw things from much farther away than a few meters. When they wer...
To make things worse, Drake knew Queen Elizabeth had forbidden Essex to join the expedition – and he had no experience of naval command or fighting at sea. With typical bravado, Essex leapt from his ship into deep water, causing many of his followers to drown in their attempt to do the...
Interestingly, during his lifetime Newton did not share his religious views quite often; he just wrote about them. Newton’s descendants also kept those papers secret, fearing that those papers would ruin his reputation and lead him to be accepted as a heretic. ...
These interesting words were found inDavid Drake'sLord of the Isles. breechclouts: a cloth worn about the breech and loins; loincloth brocade: thick heavy expensive material with a raised pattern cordage: the ropes in the rigging of a ship ...