“Are you drunk ?” “No.” “You swore to me there was no more booze down there!” “I’m not fucking drunk!” shouted Gerry miserably. “I ha...

Simon watched Mum drive away. She reached the gate and disappeared left. Behind him Dad and the man, David, the man’s name was David, shout...

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I eat a lot of sugar and it’s been figuring as a dietary demon in various things I’ve been watching and reading for a few years now. I’ve h...

The bees are dying. They’ve died off before, but not in my lifetime. As far as we know, their deaths aren’t related to climate change, but i...

Gerry leaned against the binnacle and bit into the nectarine. Juice dribbled down his chin and he sucked frantically at the flesh of the...

The Holocaust holds a fascination for many people. I am one of them. Up until recently this has manifested as an interest in the technical...

Great news. As of December 15, Operation Iraqi Freedom, otherwise known as the Iraq War, is officially over (we won). Australia , as part ...

In other startling news surrounding the Melbourne Cup, it seems that the time for the horses to run the 3200m race is getting steadily less...

I watched something pretty amazing on TV last night – gestalt Pong. The footage was of a demonstration, or experiment, run by a computer g...

There were breathless reports this week that Australian scientists (yes, we still fund a couple, and these are physicists , not those bloo...

Human beings have killed off some pretty amazing things in our time, but we usually think of these as remote (prehistoric man hunting the la...

I’ve always had a dark turn of mind. This, coupled with a love of interesting technical facts, combines to form an abiding interest in nucle...

The following problem can be solved the easy way or the hard way: "Two trains 200 miles apart are moving toward each other; each one i...

Think famous spies and you think James Bond. Think harder and you hopefully think of Kim Philby He was an English spy who turned double-agen...

Carryl and I are heading to Dunkeld for a quiet weekend away soon. Playing around on Google Earth I noticed there was a rail line passing ne...

When the Americans were developing the atomic bomb in the '40s under the auspices of the Manhattan Project they had to find out how fas...

Dear Senator Fielding, I have just read your 3 questions regarding climate change and feel I can answer these for you: QUESTION 1 Is it...

This was originally called Euthanasia , but I'm feeling mellower right now, so it's just Cressy . Cressy is a very small town in Nor...