Category Archives: Places
South Pole Scuffle
Also in the news today – a couple of men had “a drunken christmas punch up” at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole station, resulting in one having injuries serious enough to need medical evacuation to a hospital in New Zealand. Just as well it was … Continue reading
Filed under Mental Health, Places, Psychology
Planning to build your own Great Pyramid? Check that copyright.
Interesting news today as the Guardian reports that the Egyptian government plans to pass a law to have copyright on the country’s ancient monuments and museum pieces. How this is going to be enforced is not clear, but one suspects the law is … Continue reading
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Classic cinema @ the Action Écoles: 23 rue des Écoles, Paris
I have visited Paris a bunch of times since living in Europe, and as a love-struck tourist I can’t get enough. Aside from the culture, food, fashion, beautiful streets, reasurringly rude waiters etc., Paris is also a cinephiles dream. I … Continue reading
A monument to pest control
In my home town of Dalby, Queensland there exists a monument in a small park by Myall Creek that has always seemed curious to me: it is a cairn dedicated to the cactoblastis cactorum (a moth originally found in Argentina). … Continue reading
