Buschenschenk

September 20, 2020

In the southern Austrian countryside, this is the name for a rustic restaurant that elsewhere is called a HEURIGE. A buschenschenk is easily identified by the buschenschenk (also the name for a swag of fir branches) tied to its doors.

I Taste Red

“Bubbles are emptiness, non-liquid, a tiny cloud shielding a mathematical singularity. Born from chance, a violent and brief life ending in the union with the nearly infinite.”

—Dr. Andrea Prosperetti, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Houston, as quoted in The New York Times (April 9, 2019)

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