Western urban dwellers like me take for granted that we can buy whatever food takes our fancy by just popping down to our local shopping […] Read More
Category: Climate Change
The final iconic scene in the 1960s film Planet of the Apes is one of the most memorable in cinema history. Astronaut Charlton Heston discovers […] Read More
Rome was sacked by Gaul invaders in 390 BC, and in the 210s BC the Carthaginian general Hannibal wreaked havoc on the Italian Peninsula. Yet […] Read More
How Australians voted at their federal election on 21st May 2022, made headlines across the country and internationally. On election night as the votes were […] Read More
Watching your novel transform from words on a page to a three dimensional stage performance is akin to magic. It’s like watching your child grow […] Read More
In 1621, the Dutch East Indies Company virtually exterminated the native people of the Bandu Islands in order to seize a monopoly on the lucrative […] Read More
Are the cartoons of polar bears clinging onto tiny ice floes becoming so commonplace that they’re losing their impact? Beyond the polar bear, what will […] Read More
The setup of the movie Don’t Look Up is recognizable enough: Two low-level astronomers (played by Jennifer Lawrence and Leonardo DiCaprio) discover a comet which […] Read More
The Shadow was a popular radio show in 1930’s America and starred Orson Welles. The show opened with the line “Who knows what evil lurks […] Read More
Hydrogen is getting a lot of airplay as a means of decarbonizing the economy. There is talk of its use as a transport fuel, of […] Read More