I cycle to work almost daily. Two reasons: I love riding bikes, and I really, really hate sitting in traffic jams. I’m not an extreme cyclist by any means, but my daily commute nets me between 3000 and 4000 km per year. I bought my present bicycle in 2008, and […]
As anyone who has been following the situation in Poland over the last year knows, the government has centralised control over media (now the head of state media is appointed by the minister of culture), the constitutional court (well, they basically castrated it), the prosecutors (the minister of justice was […]
Every year when EF, a company specialising in private English instruction, publishes its “English Proficiency Index” we get a host of press reports enthusing about how high Poland (or Sweden) is ranked. This year, Poland is on tenth place in the world, and Sweden on third. But is it true? […]
The results of the latest yearly bicycling measurements (Warszawski Pomiar Ruchu Rowerowego 2016) were just presented. During several days in the beginning of June the number of bicyclists passing by some 50-odd places in Warsaw were counted and catalogued. Since this is a set of measurements that have been repeated […]
Who is actually doing most of the work in a science lab? In my lab, I can say for sure that it ain’t me. I have a goal to be able to spend at least one day a week in the lab to avoid having the students installing professor’s buttons* […]
Jotunheimen, probably Norway’s most famous national park, like its (almost) namesake is rugged and mountainous, although the giant-population seems to be quite sparse. In the south-west of the park the mountain-range Hurrungane contains some of Norway’s most recognised alpine peaks. This is where I went with Swedish Expeditions (that I […]
A few days ago a friend asked me to take some pictures of her garden. It’s a typical, if unusually well-kept Polish działka; a small garden where families in the town and cities are supposed to relax, socialise, grow fruits and veggies. In Warsaw, large areas are cordoned off as […]
Recently I was away with my brothers and my dad on a kind of nostalgy trip to Värmland, a landscape dominated by large empty forests, depopulation and more mosquitos than you ever want to meet (although this early in the summer they are mercifully few). The occasion was my dad’s […]
A few weeks back we visited the large miniature train exhibition at Warsaw’s National Stadium. The models are incredibly detailed, and it’s clearly so that some people have way too much free time for hobbies. Photographed from the correct angles it’s hard to see that the depicted scenes are only […]
On my research group’s webpage we wrote about a visit we had from some students from the Radom High School of Art. The students, guided by their photography professor Weronika Elertowska, made their own salt prints. I just wanted to add a few more photos from the event that I […]
