Getting started - slate floors
Natural slate is hard wearing, doesn't fade and comes in some beautiful colours. Slate is sold by the square metre. Multiply the length and width of the area and subtract any parts that aren't going to be tiled. Slate is rigid, so it must be laid ... [... more]
Better Homes & Gardens Australia |
Slate Magazine
An entertaining and genuinely informative compilation... The Explainer Slate Magazine [... more]
Random House |
Flame Robin
Male Flame Robins have a bright orange breast and throat, and are white on the lower belly and undertail. The top of their head and back is dark slate grey and there is a clear white stripe on the folded wing. The bill is black and the legs dark ... [... more]
Australian Museum |
Arnoux's Beaked Whale
One hundred and fifty years ago a skull collected from a 9.7m whale stranded in Akaroa Harbour, Banks Peninsula, New Zealand was found to represent a new species of beaked whale. It was given the name Arnoux's Beaked Whales are slate grey to ... [... more]
Australian Museum |
Will Leitch
Will Leitch, founding editor of Deadspin.com, is a contributing editor and columnist for New York magazine. He has also written for the New York Times, GQ, Fast Company, Slate, Salon, and Playboy, and is the author of Catch, a novel, and Life as ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Franklin Foer
Franklin Foer is a staff writer at the New Republic and a frequent contributor to Slate. His writing has also appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic Monthly, Foreign Policy, and Spin. He lives in Washington, D.C. [... more]
Harper Collins |
Dennis Cass
Dennis Cass has been a journalist for ten years, writing for Harper's, Spin, Mother Jones, and Slate.com. He lives in Minneapolis with his wife and son. [... more]
Harper Collins |
Daniel Gross
Daniel Gross, the "Moneybox" columnist for Slate, is the author of several books and is a contributor to the "Economic View" column in the Sunday New York Times. His writing also appears frequently in magazines such as New York and [... more]
Harper Collins |
Laying slate
Slate is an impressive surface and laying it yourself is just as impressive. Basic carpentry tools: tape measure, square, string line and pins, spirit level (900mm) Cutting slate Hire a diamond-bladed wet saw or a tile saw. (Slate will split ... [... more]
Better Homes & Gardens Australia |
Merfyn Williams
The Slate Industry Merfyn Williams Written by Merfyn Williams [... more]
Random House |
Hart Seely
From the pages of The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Slate stagger Frank Cammuso and Hart Seely, restoring a cheerful sanity to our deranged lives and times. Frank Cammuso and Hart Seely And Other American Comedies and Other American ... [... more]
Random House |
Kate M. Taylor
Kate Taylor is a culture reporter at the New York Sun; her writing has also appeared in Slate and the New Yorker. She lives in New York. Here, collected for the first time, 19 writers describe their eating disorders from the distance of recovery, ... [... more]
Random House |
