Antipodes

I'm a condemned man. Five minutes ago, I suddenly went down with a terrible affliction: a deadly virus that I picked up by browsing thro...

I once married a French girl with Breton origins. I should add that she also has a good dose of Provençal genes, surely imported long ago fr...

Back in 1994, sixteen years ago, I settled down in Choranche. Mystified by the spiritual prospects and potential of my future hermitic life,...

In his Pharyngula blog [ display ] , the biology professor PZ Myers warns us immediately of every tiny flame of crazy Creationism or insip...

The expression "fast food" suggests that you're expected to gulp it down rapidly. A US photographer, Sally Davies , has conduc...

Have you ever wanted to know what a web page is? Well, here to satisfy your curiosity is a screen shot of part of a typical web page. In fac...

For a year at the University of Sydney, I attended the classes of John Anderson [1893-1962] in Greek philosophy. It wasn't very excitin...

A profound principle of the French Republic is the separation between the State and the Church. Consequently, many French observers were sho...

To you or me, it might not look like an ideal theme for profound cogitations. But, for Sophia and Fitzroy , this small unidentified turd o...

The other evening, I watched a wonderful French TV documentary about the Moroccan cities of Casablanca and Fez, which are attempting to pres...

Ancient ads such as this one show just how much progress has been made since those carefree days when people believed naively in publicity m...

A fortnight ago, Fitzroy started his campaign of excavations at Gamone by digging up the geotextile fabric support beneath the layer of mar...

Many observers of the English have evoked their eccentric nature. It would be silly to generalize, of course, but I've always had the im...

I've always known that the wind at Gamone can be an amazing force of destruction… although I have to admit that it only blows up strongl...

Oral Roberts [1918-2009] was a US TV-evangelist, and this is a recent cover of a magazine on miracles published by his followers. Jeez, Ora...

Nothing less than ridicule will put an end to antiquated conflicts labeled Vatican versus Science . In the right corner (Jesus saved the rob...

The British actor Stephen Fry , who loves Apple toys, has come up with an amusing comparison for an iPad. “The way I see it is it’s like a d...

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TV news from the hugely popular automobile show in Paris confirms that the electric car is about to become an everyday reality in France. Cl...

From time to time, I've explained that the underlying theme of my Antipodes blog, ever since I started it in December 2006, is the conc...