Sum­mer Va­ca­tion

The STC team ...is tak­ing its cus­tom­ary sum­mer va­ca­tion, this year for six weeks. Do you think we de­serve it? We do. We look for­ward to see­ing you again on July 27!

Here's a tip! If you find your­self bored dur­ing our long sum­mer va­ca­tion and are look­ing for older posts, you can scroll through our 2,000+ en­tries, page-by-page – or use our handy Search fea­ture in the top right cor­ner of all our pages. Al­ter­na­tively, you can now use our Archive, which pro­vides a click­able list of our semi-an­nual Ret­ro­spec­tives on a sin­gle page.

Apro­pos Elio's Mem­oirs. We've oc­ca­sion­ally been asked when Elio's mem­oirs will be avail­able again. They are now, and you can down­load them as PDF here (you find this link also on the Our Books page).

Foto by Da­vide Schi­ano, (orig­i­nally on Flickr, but no longer in 2025)  

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