WAYFINDING
The Wayfinding system that Pacific Islanders used as a basis for their navigation, using only cues found in the environment, may seem irrelevant in today’s …
TYRIAN PURPLE
For millennia, Tyrian purple was the most valuable colour, and a prestigious symbol of power and influence, on the planet. Then the recipe for making …
MI5
The head of MI5, Ken McCallum, was recently joined by the heads of the U.S., Australian, Canadian, and New Zealand, security agencies in a meeting …
MALARIA
I reported a while ago on the development of a vaccine against malaria, and the fact that the search for such a life-saving solution to …
ZEALANDIA
In February 2021, I wrote a blog about the “discovery” of Zealandia, the eighth continent that many had predicted to exist, but nobody had found. …
THE BULLET
The Bullet is, debatably, one of the world’s most enduring manufactured products. With that statement, you may well think I am talking about the projectile …
BINDESHWAR PATHAK
The death of Bindeshwar Pathak this month has highlighted the enormous change he brought in an on-going fight to bring India’s sanitation habits into the …
SAVE THE VULTURES
Save the vultures may not be as appealing a slogan as save the elephants, save the blue whales, or save the pandas, but it may …
SWEDEN GRAPHITE AND CHINA
Sweden graphite and China are an unlikely combination for the topic of a blog, but the story is an example of how the Chinese Communist …
KEI MINI TRUCK
Kei mini truck is the name applied to small trucks, and I mean small, which are made mostly in Japan, and are designed to take …