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Saturday, March 12, 2016

Crater of dinosaur doom

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This is an artist’s impression of the Chicxlub crater, buried beneath the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, whose rings are located at a depth ...
Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Old paintings

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Did I ever tell you that some of my ancestors down in south-west France were keen on painting? Although I'm not a competent critic in th...
Thursday, November 4, 2010

Here are dragons

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In the New York Public Library , there's a copper globe of the world, made in France around 1510. One might have chosen between countles...
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Saturday, October 3, 2009

Grandma, maybe you should put your clothes on

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Her given name, Ardi , is short for Ardipithecus ramidus , which was a hominid species that lived about four and a half million years ago in...
Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Our concestor Ida

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Like countless Earth-dwellers, I was moved by the fabulously beautiful image of our concestor Ida . Even Google got into the act immediately...
Saturday, May 9, 2009

Megalithic evening

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Throughout the afternoon, while working in my future garden, I was aware that my TV evening was likely to be a back-and-forth affair between...
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William Skyvington
Gamone, Choranche, France
After working in various computing jobs, I retired to an old farm property in the Vercors mountain range, on the edge of the French Alps, where I spend my time writing, playing with the Internet and looking out upon the slopes in the company of my dog Fitzroy, admiring wonders created by the Big Bang and Evolution.
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