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It is getting cool during the day and downright freezing at night. The mountains are at an altitude of over 2,400m (over 7,500 ft) and the tops receive snow during the winter season. Snow is good because it means water for the Bedouin gardens, but it also means fewer customers because nobody wants to spend a chilly night on a mountain and wake up to frozen pools of water. South Sinai is in Egypt and as every Westerner knows, Egypt is where the pyramids are and therefore it must be hot. Always. All the time.
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Bedouin Blues at Mount Sinai
It is getting cool during the day and downright freezing at night. The mountains are at an altitude of over 2,400m (over 7,500 ft) and the tops receive snow during the winter season. Snow is good because it means water for the Bedouin gardens, but it also means fewer customers because nobody wants to spend a chilly night on a mountain and wake up to... [Read more...]
Space: The Final Frontier
The Evolving Universe and the Origin of Life is a book written for anyone interested in the quest for that knowledge which has changed our way of thinking about the world. Although suitable for the general audience, the book can also be used as an undergraduate text, particularly, as the authors note, by those who recognise the connection between the... [Read more...]
Kensington’s New Kitchen
I have a seething hatred for parking wardens operating in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea; those harbingers of doom, pillagers of the people, the dark knights of the dictatorship we know as the Parking Authority. Having lived in the borough for a number of years under their relentless iron fist, I have come to despise them with good reason.... [Read more...]
Confessions of an Economist
During my first years in graduate school as an aspiring economist, the most mathematically complex papers required a great deal of time and effort to read. The papers were written as if to a private club, and we felt proud when we successfully entered the club. Although I copied the style of these overly complex and often poorly written papers in my... [Read more...]
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