The Chikenz and Me

What comes next? Australia’s mortality rate for Covid-19 remains very low, although it’s getting closer to the expected figure of arou...

Update 3 - Some Correspondence My third update on the Covid-19 Pandemic was originally intended to be either a screed on the economic r...

And it begins Late in the day of 29 th December 2019, Dr Li Wenliang, an ophthalmologist at Wuhan Central Hospital, became worried ...

How Many People are Dying from Covid-19? Spoiler Alert: Nobody knows. There is, right at the moment, a proliferation of data fre...

Being the sort of chap that spends most of his time a long way behind the current news, I have only recently encountered Diamond Batterie...

Being in the habit of asking controversial questions, I am prepared to ask another. At what point, if ever, should a crime be, if not fo...

The most popular drink in the world, apparently, is water. This is hardly surprising. Next on the list is a bit harder to decide and de...

A little while back, I commented on God, gods and religiosity in a small piece on this blog. Much to my astonishment, at least one perso...

People say strange things to me. I think it's just me, but you never know. I told of a person who recently said to me " I can...

Occasionally I stumble across a factoid or news article so delicious that I feel compelled to tuck it away for further contemplation. Th...