CORN STARCH PACKAGING
A delivery of dog food to our house last week had a notice on the outside which said, “Corn Starch Packaging”. I don’t normally read …
Tyranny Versus Democracy
In the World balance of tyranny versus democracy, democracy has been in decline every year since 2006. Freedom House publishes an annual report called …
AN AFRICAN KINGDOM INSIDE BOLIVIA
An African Kingdom inside Bolivia sounds like a take-off of the Eddie Murphy film “Coming to America”, which has just been released as a sequel. …
THE HIDDEN SCIENCE OF ELEVATORS
The hidden science of elevators is something you never think about, unless you’re an elevator engineer. The exception is when you walk to the elevator, …
DEMOGRAPHICS ARE IRREFUTABLE
Short of mass genocide, pandemics or large asteroids hitting the earth, demographics are irrefutable, and cannot be changed. Yet we pay little attention to them. …
SENSIBLE CONSERVATIVE AMERICA
We need to recover sensible conservative America. The Founding Fathers created two political parties, based on the concept that one would reflect liberal views …
THE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL
The Center for Disease Control (CDC) is based in Atlanta. When I was a volunteer in Sierra Leone in the nineteen-sixties, the CDC was spoken …
ZEALANDIA & ITS INDIGENOUS ANIMALS
Part three of this continuing blog will focus on Zealandia & its indigenous animals. Unfortunately, we only have first-hand knowledge of what might have lived …
ZEALANDIA THE EIGHTH CONTINENT
Zealandia the eighth continent of planet Earth seems set to upset a whole variety of scientific applecarts. Last week’s blog introduced the new continent, and …
BURULI ULCER THE NEXT PANDEMIC?
Buruli ulcer the next pandemic? The Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, and its guru Dr. Fauci, have been trying to warn people that more …