According to experts, “the human race has peaked and could soon start moving backwards in terms of height, lifespan and physical performance”. Here’s the hard evidence: the average height of NFL football players in the US...
Category - History
Everyone has some sort of general perspective on the world, be it gloom, doom and kaboom or sugar and spice and all things nice. It all depends on who you ask. So I trolled around for an interesting bunch of people and I...
“There is no such thing as a weed. Weeds are just plants growing in the wrong place”. So said Angus McBeard, the huge and hairy owner of our local garden centre “Thistles and Thorns”. I had simply asked him what...
I grew up in the Wild West, the wild western suburbs of Sydney, in the 1950s and 60s. In some surprising ways it was just like the American Wild West of the 1850s and 60s. We knew all about the real Wild West from TV series...
They have read the books and done the “Good to Great” training seminars but somehow greatness slips through their fingers and dribbles into the kitchen sink.
When Isaac Newton was a mathematics student at Cambridge in 1665, the University closed its doors. This may have been due to the neighbours complaining about the raucous, high pitched sounds coming from the King’s College...
I go to a dental practice which is quick to adopt the most up to date treatments. On a previous visit I was advised that “best practice” for dental hygiene was to brush with toothpaste and not rinse! That’s right, no rinse...
Eureka moments, sudden realisations that change you forever, revelations of great truths. They are all epiphanies. I had a self epiphany at my first school cricket match. When I walked in to bat, the opposing team as a man moved...
I was on my daily walk around the lake. A smallish older woman with white fluffy hair was holding onto the lead of her small white fluffy dog – a West Highland terrier. She was standing at a bend in the path talking to...
Now that I have hijacked your attention with a totally false claim, here are the top 10 things about the complexit-teas and inconsequentialit-teas of tea. Tea bags are made from dust. That’s right your old reliable...