Probability, it has been said, can lull you into a false sense of security. We have been reminded of the ill-fated ocean liner Titanic just recently...
We used to talk about the “human element” in the context of it having become something of an afterthought, as technology advanced, and the need to bear...
It doesn’t do to be too fearful about what the future will bring. It is some comfort, a contemporary remarked the other day, that we will have left...
The headline did not altogether signal a positive item of news. “Coastal creatures thriving on Great Pacific Garbage Patch,” it announced, the story...
It might be an unfortunate term, but the world is now busy conducting something of a “post-mortem” of the Covid pandemic, seeking to learn what was...
It was some years ago that a friend, looking at a picture of a couple of giant ship-shore container cranes arriving in a port aboard a barge, observed...
Just occasionally, you see an image that makes you look twice and to ask questions about what the artist – or in this case the photographer – really...
We take modern communications for granted these days and are exasperated beyond belief if our amazing mobile phone, for some reason, cannot get a signal....
As everyone raves on about “net zero” while lighting fires on the pavement outside the IMO building to keep the protesters warm (as the “Just stop oil”...
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