When are you gonna come down? When are you going to land? I recently wrote an article where I used the analogy of a vast Jumbo jet as existence on planet earth (you can read it here on Medium), titled Crash and Burn or Glide to Safety. In an update to that story I now believe we have entered what is known…

Not as strange an idea as I first thought. — I recently wondered if Stonehenge (that group of megalithic stones in Wiltshire) was actually just the remains of a Stone Age building and that the stones were originally there simply to hold up the roof. Well this idea turns out not to be as radical as I imagined, as several…

And one day it might become everyone’s favourite EV. I’m hoping that one day my dream car will come along and I am praying it will be based on the very real and greatly loved automobile: the Morris Minor. This icon of the 1960s is as much loved as the…

Why I won’t believe Boris has gone until he is dragged from №10 If you listen carefully to Boris Johnson’s resignation speech you will notice that he only resigned as Party Leader of the Conservative Party, not as Prime Minister. Most pundits would assume that the one would automatically entail…

The constant battle against the far right. The recent ruling on Roe V Wade that has removed women’s unalienable right to control their own body, in the US, has proved that the far right have never given up the fight for supremacy. When WW2 ended, the victors assumed that the…

Time to revisit Calhoun’s rat and mice experiments When John Calhoun started performing experiments on rats and mice to determine effect of population density on behaviour, he little imagined the horrifying outcomes that today are looking a little too familiar. …

Can Musk solve these problems before launching a thousand starships. Some of you may remember a crazy hippy experiment that took place in the 1990s called Biosphere 2; which has become surprisingly prescient today. A bunch of actors locked themselves away for two years, totally isolated from the world in a huge bio-dome complex in the Arizona desert. No, this…

We are now so far down the rabbit hole we can’t tell up from down. — A recent article by Katie Stallard in The New Statesman talks about the recent rumours of Putin’s long list of alleged illnesses and even that he may already be dead; replaced by a body double. As much as we might welcome the demise of a power hungry despot with an…

A British view of the American gun problem First off, this is not going to be an anti-gun or gun control article, this is going to discuss the root cause of the gun violence that is prevalent in the US. There has been plenty of debate around whether having guns…