I created the “Connecting the Dots” blog site to investigate and interpret a global range of topics from an international, and personally quirky, perspective.
My topics in “Connecting the Dots” include politics, the environment, fun issues, social issues and anything else that catches my attention. I hope you enjoy them, and will join me through your comments.
I inaugurated the “GOLDEN FLEECE AWARD” some time ago, which rewards the most stupid, inept, criminal and just plain dumb activities of public officials and others, everywhere. I have now added another award, the “GOLDEN EAGLE AWARD”, which celebrates remarkably positive activities of public officials and others. I would appreciate your help in identifying great examples of both.
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 …
Redonda is a tiny lump of rock in the Caribbean, located almost equidistant from Antigua, St. Kitts and Monserrat. I have flown over that area …
The history of my interest in bears was, until recently, confined to “Rupert Bear” when I was child (a stuffed animal), and various National Geographic …
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. …
How is the world doing on gender equality? According to the World Economic Forum (WEF), the picture is mixed. The needle is moving in the …
“Writer of common sense into computers” was the header of an obituary I read in The Economist this week for Douglas Lenat. I don’t generally …
I have tended to think that worrying about Russian spies was a remnant of the old Cold War. It has certainly faded from the news …
We are sending badly educated people to Washington DC to form the government that is supposed to represent us in the American experiment of democracy. …
“Too many hats” sounds like an admonition of a person who takes on so many different roles that they perform all of them badly. Equally, …
Sea Sponges in Zanzibar struck me as a story that should have wider circulation. It is, at the same time, heart-warming, topical, and an indication …
