Last year the UN released a sweeping and damning report on North Korea’s awful human rights performance. The document was heavy in word count and detail. Painstakingly researched using North Korean visitors and defectors...
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The following photos are taken from an exhibition of rare photographs of black people in Victorian England. The series is titled Black Chronicles II. It showcases photographs of some of the first black people to live in...
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Initially I wanted to present to you a collection of pictures of ropy artist’s impressions of dinosaurs; but when I started searching I came across so many pictures and stories that it sort of mutated...
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After the rip-roaring success of my article on the Statues of Belarus, I decided to spread my wings and flap all the way over to Mongolia to do the same. The stark, lifeless,...
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You might think an article on religion in Antarctica might be pretty short, and you’d be right. But, there are at least 7 churches on mainland Antarctica and a couple on the surrounding islands....
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Coober Pedy is a small Australian mining town 846 Km north of Adelaide. The dusty, dry, scorching hot town is often referred to as the opal capital of the world; in all it has 70 opal fields...
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“Living fossil” isn’t a scientific term, but it is used fairly frequently, especially in the lay media by people like me. For the purpose of this article, a living fossil is a species that...
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As I continue my abridged odyssey through the history of western philosophy, I come to 3 people who are not philosophers but who have had a profound impact on the course of humanity’s...
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It seems that for as long as humanity has had time and money it has been wantonly wasting it. Money wasting is as human a trait as yawning or the pox. People have been...
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As most people with even a passing interest in cryptozoology will know, the Loch Ness monster is believed by some to be an extant dinosaur. A plesiosaur to be precise. The idea that...
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