Around twelve hundred years ago, the descendants of the believers in the old Norse saga of Askr and Emla, the … Read More “People Pods, Corn and
Mud, Mud, Glorious Mud”
Those of us living in a ‘post Darwin’ world may find it hard to understand that human beings didn’t spot … Read More “Humans – Clear as Mud”
The world has changed a lot this year. How about in the past 250 years? Had I been born in … Read More “In The Beginning…”
Do you remember the PANDEMIC? For some reason I felt I had something to share about viruses, history, vaccination and … Read More “Evolution is Evolving….”
FLiRT – sounds cute doesn’t it? Last December I saw in a pre-Christmas newspaper mention of a new Covid-19 ‘variant’, … Read More “The Doorway to Wonderland?”
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind Albert Einstein In July 2021, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom … Read More “The ‘Measles of Mankind’
From Omicron to Ukraine”
The vice-chancellor of my university, Peter Leggett, once said, ‘The purpose of life is to learn the art and science … Read More “A Pandemic Passage to India”
A friend of mine recently wrote to me about a Facebook post entitled ‘mRNA Vaccination: Who knows what lies ahead?’. … Read More “A Plague of Vaccines”
I felt a strong sense of irony when I read two news stories on the same day a couple of … Read More “Indian Summer”
(Thinking that Reading, Writing and Arithmetic are the three R’s doesn’t seem to me to represent a high degree of … Read More “The Three R’s:
Risk Reward Ratio”