Antipodes

Back in the days when I earned my living as a computer programmer, we coexisted constantly with bugs . I believe that such tiny evil spirits...

For the first decade of my existence, I lived in a rural house in South Grafton (Australia) that did not have a so-called WC (water closet)....

Yesterday evening, I watched a fascinating TV documentary about the early history of the Roman city of Lutetia , known since the 4th century...

The skyrocketing price of petroleum has given rise to a lot of buzz recently about revolutionary high-tech processes capable of producing ch...

Over the last year or so, there has been some discussion about the claim that the hang glider was invented by John Dickenson in Grafton, bu...

The futuristic writer Arthur C Clarke died early this morning, at the age of 90, at Colombo in Sri Lanka, where he had been living for over...

I'm always happy to see dear old Europe asserting its time-honored role as an inventor of the future. This afternoon, the European Parli...

By the age of twelve or so, having grown up in a competitive cycling environment, I was perfectly capable of riding my ordinary racing bike,...

In my recent article entitled Australia's submarines [ display ] , I suggested that there is insufficient political consciousness and s...

Readers who've seen Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey will recall that the AI [ artificial intelligence ] creature named Hal —who loo...

In my article of 29 August 2007 entitled Sydney skies [ display ] , I criticized Australia's decision to place a jet fighter above the ...

Everybody in France is familiar with EDF : Electricité de France . They're the national electricity utility, whose shares were recently ...

Unless you're living like a Neanderthal in a limestone cave at the foot of the cliffs in a remote place such as Choranche, you're aw...

I'm shocked by the fact that certain elected politicians in Australia are described in the local press as "Catholic MPs", as i...

Areva is a large French state-owned company in the field of nuclear energy. They handle the three fundamental aspects of this domain: the p...

A few years ago, when I slipped on the wet slopes of Gamone and broke my leg (while carrying my midget billy-goat Gavroche to the sheep shed...

You know how a stage magician, having levitated a woman who's stretched out horizontally, proves that she's floating in the air, wit...