For decades, the response to global climate change was expected to look much like the response to the ozone hole: scientists would make predictions and support them with observations, and the world, prompted by those observed truths, would agree on a solution similar to the Montreal Protocol, the international agreement on C.F.C.s that was originally signed in 1987.
His TV show currently exists in a genre all by itself; bittersweet vignettes shot through with self-deprecation and acutely observed truths that also manage to be bladder-burstingly funny.
In Bakewell itself, it's definitely a pudding, the name by which it was apparently known until the 20th century, though, as Alan Davidson's Oxford Companion to Food observes, truth be told it's "more of a tart", wherever it's baked.
In May 1915 Gandhi founded a satyagraha ashram at Ahmedabad with 25 inmates, who took vows to observe truth, nonviolence, celibacy and fearlessness; to practise self-control; to work for the removal of untouchability and for education through the mother tongue; and to wear only khadi (hand-spun and hand-woven cloth).
I love to observe truth in people, and to be amongst people who walk their talk.
One man who observed the truth up close, four years before the Khmer Rouge came to power, was a French ethnologist called François Bizot.
The extent of our greed precludes mentioning them all, but almost every one confirmed the seemingly obvious, yet seldom observed, culinary truth that there's almost nothing better than wonderful basic ingredients cooked simply and accurately.
Strauss himself observes the truth of this, but only in the context of trying to deny that sargers actually hate women.
You can observe the truth of this in every e-business model ever constructed: monopolise and protect data, capture the free social data generated by user interaction, push commercial forces into areas of data production that were non-commercial before, mine the existing data for predictive value – always and everywhere ensuring nobody but the corporation can utilise the results.
