EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE – Science & Technology

As science develops, its working material can seem remote and difficult to the general reader. This certainly applies to cosmology. Some findings e.g. ‘quantum entanglement’ (What is Quantum Entanglement? NASA Science) are so counter-intuitive as to be incomprehensible. When it comes to cosmology we should thank our lucky stars that some scientists take the trouble […]

Tristan Gooley (Tristan Gooley – The Natural Navigator) is an author and naturalist. He set up his natural navigation school in 2008 and is the author of award-winning books, including The Natural Navigator (2010), The Walker’s Guide to Outdoor Clues & Signs  (2014), How to Read Water (2016), The Secret World of Weather (2021), The Hidden Seasons (2025), some of the world’s only books covering natural navigation.

Henry Gee (Dr Henry Gee announced as winner of the 2022 Royal Society Science Book Prize | Royal Society) is is a palaeontologist, evolutionary biologist and senior editor of the scientific journal Nature. In this book from 2021 Gee undertakes to explain the 3.7 billion years of life on Earth in 319 pages. For billions of

English psychiatrist Colin Murray Parkes noted that grief is the price we pay for love. (Colin Murray Parkes – Oxford Reference). Most would agree it’s a price worth paying. It must be a sad human indeed who has never known love. Without some such redeeming experience the world can look pretty bleak, like the ‘sterile

4th April 2020. We’re in the midst of the gravest health emergency any of us can remember. Hospitals around the world are filling up with people dying of the disease Covid-19. The UK economy has effectively been placed in a coma. To get an understanding of this contagion forget the conspiracy theories with which the

Bill Bryson ( https://www.penguin.co.uk/authors/101/1017933/bill-bryson.html and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Bryson) is a well known and loved author in the UK. Born and brought up in Des Moines, Iowa, Bryson has made England his home for most of his adult life. He came to prominence in the UK with the publication of Notes from a Small Island (1995), an affectionate but satirically

It’s been hot in Scotland over these past days in July of 2019. ( https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jul/24/uk-records-hottest-day-of-year-and-could-hit-new-high-of-39c ) High temperatures of this sort in The Upper Ward induce a febrile and mordacious mood. So we can say our weather’s been nothing to do with with climate change or global warming. Nothing to do with human activity. Nothing