Category: Science in Context

January 1, 2018

A rocky mound, 1500m above, and 119.44 km straight-line distance from the sea, is about

November 30, 2017

Krakatoa, 1883, and the seas shivered. The eruption, one of the largest in recorded history,

November 21, 2017

The Saturday Evening Post, March 4, 1944, featured on its cover the iconic Norman Rockwell

November 18, 2017

A “Nitrate timebomb”. Last week’s media metaphor (Nov 10, 2017), was no doubt intended to

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 4, 2017

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

September 20, 2017

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