10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 11, 2019
Belgium is – quite justifiably – the most famous bastion of such relict preindustrial beers, home to some beers with truly ancient lineages, as well as more modern formulations that proudly incorporate old techniques and ingredients that would seem hopelessly obsolete anywhere else.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 15, 2018
Better yet, Ommegang’s domestic production allowed drinkers a taste of Belgium at a lower cost than the imports – and without the risk of stale, corked, or skunked beer posed by dusty old bottles after their rough transatlantic passage. All this has helped Ommegang become a tourist attraction in its own right.
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Critter News
NOVEMBER 11, 2009
Are animal rights organizations more effective? At a conference in Brussels, Belgium on 6 November, European Commission Vice-President Günter Verheugen, and Science and Research Commissioner Janez Potocnik restated the EU's commitment to the reduction of animal testing. Is there a different culture regarding animals in Europe?
10,000 Birds
JULY 3, 2020
A few of my own observations of birds perching on Albany, New York’s weathervanes (clockwise from the upper right): A pair of Fish Crows ( Corvus ossifragus ) perched on a “fish”vane (what else?) And living birds still seem to appreciate weathervanes as perches! on The Albany Academy by architect Marcus T.
Animal Ethics
JULY 24, 2009
According to this BBC story, city officials in Ghent, Belgium, are encouraging all residents to go vegetarian one day a week. A Kantian (though not Kant himself) would say that while the act is right, in the sense of being in accordance with duty, it has no moral worth, since it is not done from duty.
10,000 Birds
JULY 6, 2021
He sat…his crown giving searing shafts of violet as the light caught the feathers at just the right angle. Beneath him hung two midnight-purple discs, seemingly unattached from the bird itself, so thin were the filaments of feather spine that supported them.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 11, 2021
Brasserie au Baron has its origins in a bistro run by the Bailleux family since 1973 in Gussignies, a small French town along that lies along the river Hogneau right at the border with Belgium’s Hainaut province in the Francophone south of that country.
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