Antipodes

I've finished a short article on the arrow symbol—comprising a copy of a personal letter from Sir Ernst Gombrich —which is now stored in...

Regular readers of my Antipodes blog will have noticed that I often go out of my way to give a friendly helping hand to needy causes that a...

Enda Kenny is the Taoiseach (prime minister) of Ireland. On 20 July, in the Dáil Éireann (lower house) of the Oireachtas (Irish parliame...

That's a great slogan, and the US neuroscientist Sam Harris is a brilliant lecturer. Besides, his clean-cut charisma echoes that of his...

I continue to talk about my past interest in symbolic arrows… which I've already evoked in three blog posts: in May , June and yesterda...

In my May article entitled Voices from Vienna [ display ] , I evoked my exchange of letters with the great Viennese art historian Ernst Gom...

Here in rural France, I buy groceries in plebeian places such as Leclerc and Intermarché supermarkets. On the other hand, if I were to set...

This unique modern replica of the airplane of the Wright brothers is referred to as the Wright "B" Flyer Silver Bird . Its fir...

When I was working with IBM Australia back in Sydney during the period 1957-1961, I remember being most impressed by an anecdote designed to...

In my previous post [ display ] , I mentioned our good fortune in having a resident GP, Xavier Limouzin , with many qualities, including tha...

If this photo shocks my readers, then I ask you to believe that this silly accident certainly shocked me too. But I've now overcome the ...

At the start of a recent Dilbert strip, I was surprised, indeed intrigued, to find the Pointy-Haired Boss referring to the sophisticated p...

I've always been intrigued by manifestations of an everyday concept that can only be called relativity … although it has nothing to do w...

The Yale psychologist Paul Bloom is interested in big fundamental questions of an aesthetic or moral kind, such as: Why do we like certain ...

These are salt-water crocodiles in the Northern Territory. The little fellow is about 2.5 meters in length. As for the big reptile, the phot...

This man is our main hope of defeating Sarkozy and bringing the French nation back onto a road towards the republican goal of liberté, éga...

It's not unlikely that the Norwegian mass-murderer Anders Behring Breivik is in fact " crazy "—as his lawyer Geir Lippestad ...

When I was a 14-year-old kid hanging around in the rough competitive-cycling environment of my native Grafton and Coffs Harbour, the very id...

Lovely mysterious Amy Winehouse , you told us you were trouble. But how come you couldn't get past 27 years?

This afternoon, as I watched (on TV) the final ceremonial stage of the fabulous Tour de France parade on the Champs Elysées, I thought back ...