Antipodes

As soon as I glimpsed the postage stamp on the missive from Ron Willard , I sensed that my agent in the Antipodes—who has links with Asian c...

Yesterday, there may have been a bushfire. And the day before that, people were suffering from a drought. That's a huge price that resid...

I find Australian friends on a few family-history blogs getting excited about DNA testing. Meanwhile, the great American science scholar and...

French president Nicolas Sarkozy , German chancellor Angela Merkel and British prime minister David Cameron have issued a joint statement ...

The gist of an article in the latest issue of Wired Science is so utterly amazing that it's hard to imagine that the phenomenon in ques...

A new structure named OpenLeaks —with a similar vocation to that of WikiLeaks —is about to go into action. Its creator, German-born Daniel D...

NOTE : The following blog post extends in real time over a period of 4 hours. When I started to jot down my impressions, I didn't intend...

When I was a young man in Sydney in the late '50s and early '60s (working with IBM), I often used to eat in a nondescript but charmi...

These days, we hear a lot about the achievements of Apple. I'm unlikely to complain about that, of course, because I've always been ...

Some observers looked upon this logo (before it was animated) as one of the most ingenious graphic inventions ever invented. Apparently, som...

People in France have known for decades that the French national railway system—called the SNCF —was implicated explicitly in the ignominiou...

To appreciate this video (spoken in Flemish with excellent English subtitles), you'll need a few preliminary explanations. Four young fe...

I have a short family-history article appearing in the forthcoming newsletter of the Clarence River Historical Society [ website ] , locate...

Australia Day is an appropriate moment to commemorate my ancestral relative Thomas Rose [1749-1833] from Dorset. Aboard the Bellona , Thoma...