The Ice Age Cometh – climate change explained in three graphs [1] So, geologists observe, a cycle Hath smaller cycles that on them prey And these have yet smaller ones to bite ‘em And so proceed ad infinitem Thus, every Era in its kind Repeats all those that […]
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This is fantastic and gripping story about the biggest mining scandal in history. It is told through the testimony of eyewitnesses linked by an intelligent and clear narrator. Aspects of the story are so bizarre that you might think it fiction, but it is all true. Presented […]
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This post is a review and summary of Phillipa Langley’s recent scholarly book, The Princes in the Tower: Solving History’s Greatest Cold Case (The History Press, 488p, 2023. ISBN 978 1 80399 542 7). Langley is an enthusiastic amateur historian and prominent member of the Richard III […]
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The Wolf was a deadly enemy of Man and Horse. The Man could easily kill the Wolf with his spear, but he could never run fast enough to catch it. The Horse could outrun the Wolf but had no weapons. So Man and Horse made a tactical […]
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I have just come across a new word – saxicavous, so I look it up in that well-known source of Truth and concise definition – Wik Dictionary. To discover a bald definition: “boring rocks“. Wonderful! This is a word I have been looking for all my professional […]
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Beneath the canopy it is dark and gloomy on the forest floor, the air heavy ahead of late-afternoon rain. I am alone in a remote spot on a remote island in a remote corner of the Pacific. Three men appear from the trees behind me. They are […]
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“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.” Albert Einstein, 1953 Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of uncertainty – some most unsure, some nearly sure, none […]
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As a 10-year-old in 1953, I migrated with my family to South Australia, and settled in to one of the fast-growing outer suburbs of Adelaide that were being rapidly built at that time to accommodate the post-war influx of migrants. I enrolled for the new term at […]
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The Problem Climate Change (CC) dominates today’s environmental concerns. We are daily bombarded with the message that it will lead to future catastrophe for humanity, if not for the planet. Human emissions of greenhouse gasses are the primary cause and only drastic societal change will enable us […]
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