Swiss time trial monster Fabian Cancellara is currently racing the Paris-Roubix classic. If he wins he'll follow in the illustrious footsteps of Josef Fischer, the first winner.
Apr 112010
Mar 302010
Really quickly... Gawker has awesome pictures of a bug approaching one metre long.
The Sun isn't my favourite British tabloid. That honour of course goes to the Daily Mail. But the Sun does have this excellent scoop on a Chinese farmer with a terrible problem.
And the Large Hadron Collider, that Geneva particle accelerator some people think will create an earth gobbling black hole, has reached full power. It's a story I've covered several times. The big day was today.
Next post? A story on Switzerland, the EU and Libya.
Mar 142010
Pigs with wigs? Last week I appeared on WakeUp Sydney, which to state the obvious, is a morning show down under. The assignment: help explain why Swiss voters defeated a national referendum that would have appointed animal lawyers in each of the country's 26 cantons.
To be clear: it would have been lawyers for animals... as opposed to, you know.
In any case, it the idea was rejected by about 70 per cent of the population. That doesn't mean we're not animal lovers. People take their dogs everywhere. They're allowed everywhere. The Swiss also have quite strict rules for the keeping of fish and rodents.
Getting back to the story, I had arrived on Wednesday morning fresh off an overnight from Toronto. I appeared in the office a few hours later and was asked do the interview. I spent a couple of hours brushing up on comparative animal rights around the world.
We ended up talking about kangaroos, tuna and kayaks, elephants and hamsters for rent. Have a listen.
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Jan 122010
We spent a couple hours in the studio in December recording some voice for swissinfo.ch's Android platform. I'm going to try to get the outtakes, which, believe it or not, are a bit hilarious. Stay tuned.
But in the mean time, check out the promo.
Mar 082009