Antipodes

I've already written briefly [ here ] about the glorious hydrangea-covered seaside slopes in Brittany.  Here's a photo of the German...

What a fabulous idea: Google's plans to develop and test a small driverless car. Click to enlarge For the moment, Google has been...

Nicolas Vadot , 44, is British, French and Australian. This fine specimen is a contribution to Cartooning for Peace .

To the same extent as The Scream [click here ], this painting by Grant Wood [1891-1940] has become a famous icon. Its simple title is perf...

Forcing Julian Assange to stay cloistered in an embassy is a barbarian act, perpetrated by God's Own Barbarians. Personally,...

In Australian speech, the word "backpacker" designates a foreign tourist, generally young, whose only luggage is a sack with shoul...

As a foreigner who has been speaking and writing French for many years, I've encountered two quite different kinds of problems. On the o...

Protesters have been gathering in Australian cities to oppose cruel government plans to deport 267 refugees, including 72 children, to offsh...

The American writer Rachel Carson [1907-1964] published her masterpiece Silent Spring in 1962, describing the nasty effects of pesticides ...

I've watched with amusement a small video that shows a few smart Dutch policemen using a trained eagle to attack and destroy a drone. If...

Last night, I spent the evening watching two excellent TV programs about American women who used to be weighed down by their famous husbands...

In the upper left-hand section of that photo, you might notice that the concrete pylons of the ski lifts are surrounded by protective rub...

The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority in Britain—often referred to as the "fertility regulator"—has just given scienti...

Here's a fascinating photo of Omo , a white giraffe, from Paul Allen (philanthropist, investor, entrepreneur, author, Seahawks & Bl...

I know nothing about the task of attaching a cable to an abandoned ghost ship, the Modern Express , and then tugging it to a desired loc...

Here's a photo of the English Channel, looking towards the east, viewed from above the tip of Brittany. The image was obtained by the fi...

About 100 million years after the creation of our planet, a collision occurred between the Earth and a baby planet,  Theia , The smaller pla...

Four people accused of stealing a young specimen of the Indonesian Komodo Dragon have been thrown into jail, to await their trial. Th...

Towards the end of 1957, after my second year of studies in the Faculty of Science at the University of Sydney, my student friend Michael Ar...

Click to enlarge The French president François Hollande makes a diplomatic effort by wearing appropriate clothes and banning champag...