Category: SciComm

November 12, 2017

Our blue Earth, rising above the lunar horizon, is an abiding image of our watery

November 5, 2017

Christmas morning in New Zealand is synonymous with mid-summer barbecues at the beach, deservedly lazy

October 30, 2017

Saturday August 8, 1829, Felix Mendelssohn and his traveling companion Karl Klingemann, took a boat

October 25, 2017

The media loves hyperbole. In some ways they remind me of ‘The end is nigh’

October 18, 2017

The media love natural disasters, even those that don’t exist. Last week (early October, 2017),

October 10, 2017

In the opening scenes of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001 Space Odyssey (1968), Neanderthal-like folk are scrounging for

October 4, 2017

Toba Lake, in northern Sumatra, occupies the ancient Toba caldera. One of its outlets, the

September 27, 2017

Flood, fire, drought … We have, by luck and muddled management, thwarted pestilence, but it

September 20, 2017

Photosynthesis, a process that had its beginnings about 2.5 billion years ago, has an awesome

September 17, 2017

Several years ago I read Jerry P. King’s The Art of Mathematics (1992). Chapter 3