The US people have a particular relationship to the office of their President and with those individuals who hold that office. In Australia the functional head of our Government is a member of the House of Representatives. The party that individual leads holds a majority of seats in that chamber. On the other side of …
I read somewhere that the only human being who never had a messiah complex was the one who actually was the messiah, namely Jesus. (If I was more efficient, I’d have a referencing system.) The rest of us fall into various degrees of trying to trying to rescue parts of (or all of) creation, instead …
One of the articles I mentioned yesterday mentioned the phrase ‘dark tourism‘. I had not previously encountered the concept and then the tragic news of the plane accident near Kokoda became public. Questions come to mind about the draw of places like Kokoda and Gallipoli to increasing numbers of Australians year by year. The actual …
New Scientist magazine’s website features an online version of an article entitled ‘Ten Things We Don’t Understand About Humans’. Despite the article’s title they really try to have a crack at explaining them anyway. The ‘Things’ they don’t understand about the human body are interesting, as are the principles they bring to bear in providing …
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