In my palaeontological peregrinations, I occasionally refer to papers that may be everything from months to nearly two centuries old. For instance, one of the seminal papers in the early…
I wrote a rant a while ago about how the Russian invasion of Ukraine has developed into a very different war with drones of various types forming a huge part…
Everyone knows that politicians and their supporters lie. Not long after I began this blog in early 2017, I wrote a piece about how politicians lie and I gave some…
In March 2018, David Roberts wrote a piece in Vox bemoaning the state of the op-ed page of the New York Times; the main thrust being that these pages do…
Unfortunately for the US, the Mango Paedo was allowed to give a speech at the UN1. Most of it was self-aggrandisement, lies and stoking the fear of foreigners he relies…
It has been said to me by more people than I can remember, that ‘laughter is the best medicine’. In the past, I have often wondered if indeed it is…
As anyone who has been online in recent years will tell you, the Russian invasion of Ukraine has developed into a very different war with drones forming a huge part…
Because of my particular palaeontological expertise, in 1999, I was asked to be involved in a project with the Northern Territory Geological Survey (NTGS). They were about to begin remapping…
While I never thought I would witness a genocide in my time on this planet, there have been several; one of the worst, and happening now, is the appalling genocide…
Many years ago, acquaintances of ours, Peter and Ria Gill, owned a restaurant, Peaches1,2, in the Canberra suburb of Campbell and we would occasionally dine there. The food was wonderful…



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