Antipodes

I'm utterly shocked by the apparent absence of Australian diplomatic intervention in the case of Julian Assange , condemned to survive f...

A few days ago, a bit of half-hearted barking by Fitzroy informed me that something slightly irregular was happening at Gamone. When I rush...

Viewers in France and Germany have been reaching my Antipodes blog after Googling with the search argument " François Skyvington ...

Maybe some of my readers don't know this notorious punchline from an Australia Tourism video of 5 years ago: In Sydney yesterday, ...

Yesterday afternoon, my supplier of firewood—my neighbor Gérard Magnat —dumped a huge pile of wood alongside the house. Since rain has been ...

A new kind of personal identity key has come into existence over the last few years. I refer to it as your Y-key , pronounced to rhyme with ...

The situation is unfair. Why is it that such-and-such a totally-unknown moronic compatriot from Down Under makes world headlines every so of...

Click here to watch the US comic Jon Stewart unwinding excitedly when he demolishes Mitt Romney . It's not only great entertainment; i...

Click here to access an excellent article by Sam Harris entitled On the Freedom to Offend an Imaginary God . There's an old sayi...

A week ago, I published a short post entitled Images that stimulate our imagination [ display ]. Well, friends at Gallica tweeted me a than...

When I heard that the US novelist Dan Brown had suggested, in The Da Vinci Code , that Jesus had been married to Mary Magdalene , I was to...

This morning, I was pleased to learn that Richard Dawkins had retweeted (to his almost half-a-million followers) my latest message. C...

Several years ago, in the context of my document on maternal genealogy entitled A Little Bit of Irish [ access ], I tackled briefly (in the...

In a blog post of 7 February 2012 [ display ], I referred rather rudely to certain individuals in our family tree as "ring-ins", w...

In France yesterday, a similarly illegal protest march took place in Paris. We learn today that an official inquiry will take place, to...

In my blog post of 8 September 2012 entitled Robotic runner [ display ], we saw a legged robot named Cheetah breaking a speed record on a ...

People in charge of the excellent Gallica website of the Bibliothèque nationale de France [ access ] send us constantly all kinds of fasci...