Imagine if cactus, not grass, was the most abundant plant on Earth. It would make rugby a whole lot more interesting. It’s one of the many blessings of this planet, though, that nature has [...]
The human body is a phenomenal thing. I’m not just talking about mine – yours probably is too. But there are certain functions that still need explaining.
I’m nervous. I feel that, just by writing that word above, I’ve committed myself to something enormous. I might as well have written ‘Life’ or ‘Time’. Water is [...]
My heart aches and a drowsy numbness pains my sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, or emptied some dull opiate to the drains one minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk. Ahh that post tax [...]
Every day’s a school day, as the saying goes, and it’s a wonderful privilege of being alive that you’re never too old to learn. Facts that seem obvious to some people from a [...]
