Trusting your instincts 🪂
SIV I got back from an SIV paragliding course last month (that’s me in the cover photo 😜). SIV stands for “Simulation d’Incidents en Vol”, which is French for “Simulation…
Mitochondria ⚡
I said I’d write a post about mitochondria, so here we are. Evolution of the cell Back in the day when life was much simpler (before multicellular was a thing),…
Death, suffering and the technocratic society.
I talk to myself. Quite a lot. I think my blog is a manifestation of this aspect of me and I use it as a useful tool (well, to me)…
Little wireless wonders 🎧
Well I’ve been living with the #Technics #az80 for almost 12 weeks now and since then they’ve been with me on two paragliding trips and two mountain biking trips (3x…
Are you fingerless or dead? 🪓
A bad man with a hoe On twitter today, I watched some poor bastard sat on a rock have his fingers and thumb cut off by some guy standing over…
Long before “Peaky Blinders” – the story of a 🧥
I thought long and hard about posting this because it is shocking.. at least to me. Easier to write about than talk about. And I have recovered. When I was…
Twitter – a source of news? 📰
Merry Christmas everyone! Legacy media During the gulf war, thirty years ago or so, when al-jazeera was only broadcast in arabic on TV, it became pretty obvious to me that…
Time to assume that health research is fraudulent until proven otherwise?
The title words above are not mine. They are those of Richard Smith who was the editor of The BMJ until 2004. This passage, in an article he wrote, I…
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Countering propaganda during war.🪖
I am not mad. BUT, I probably have more time than most to read and analyse. And I am old and cynical. Hitler didn’t set up the Third Reich and…
The Domestication of Humans.
UPDATE: It’s happening in China Preface: This is a frivolous and fictional piece by me bought about, these days, because I’m spending too much time behind my desk listening to…
Why I’m hoping to avoid having a vaccine.
This is a follow up post to the one I did here on the whole vaccine/world domination conspiracy theory and concerns the new vaccine technologies. Whilst, before considering all of…
Money creation in the modern economy
Hi All OK – this is an old subject and one which was probably responsible for me starting blogging in the first place. But I think it’s probably more relevant…
Brazil – December 2019
Well I’m back from my trip to Brazil.. What a mind opener that was. In October, three Brazilians set a new paragliding world record of 582km there, so we knew…