What lies behind the Peace Prize awarded in Washington, on December 5, 2025, to Donald Trump by the president of FIFA, Gianni Infantino? More than seven months after the Mango…
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Being an old soccer player from way back, I have of course been watching the men’s World Cup which is being played in Canada, the US and Mexico. This time…
Last century, my grandfather came down with what was just termed dementia or senile dementia, and was eventually confined to what was called a mental institution, where he eventually died….
The reflecting pool between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument, in Washington D.C., was dedicated in 1922. It is 619 metres long and 51 metres wide, and less than…
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation television show Gruen1, which examines the advertising industry, sometimes hilariously, is always entertaining. On a recent show telecast on Wednesday June 3rd, one of the regular…
The very peculiar Chris Uhlmann has outdone himself with a piece in the Australian (where else?) entitled ‘Will Pauline Hanson be the Martin Luther of our time’1. While the title…
I was talking to a couple of former colleagues today, and what they were telling me about missing Law of the Sea data subsequent to their time in the organisation…
On its website, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) styles itself as the “world’s premier foreign intelligence agency”. It states that “the work we do at CIA is vital to U.S….
Often you will hear religious nutters try to give their weird beliefs a veneer of credibility by using scientific terminology. This is perhaps best exemplified by the use of the…
Late last year, I wrote a piece about the Ghost Shark, an extra-large autonomous underwater vehicle coming into service with the Royal Australian Navy. In that piece, I noted how…