Longevity of the ass – Bury and Norwich Post 4 January 1854: A donkey has just died at Fornham All Saints, having attained to the venerable age of 70 years and upwards. It formerly belonged to the Cornwallis family, and was ridden by Lady Ann, after whom it was...
Warren Nunn A few lines in an English newspaper highlight the extraordinary generosity of a gentleman that blessed several Suffolk villagers who may otherwise have had a miserable Christmas. In December 1852 (and again the following year), William Francis Farmer,...
Funny business, that storytelling ©Warren Nunn Scientific storytelling is sometimes so obvious that it could even be laugh-out-loud funny if it weren’t so serious. An article <Shape shifters, The Economist, p. 70, 9 May 2015> which claimed the ancient ancestors...
Warren Nunn Extremists/fundamentalists whose unpopular views sometimes cause public outrage now face extreme sanctions that reek of extreme fundamentalism. We live in extreme times where public discourse is out of control. Rare is the situation where a person is able...
Warren Nunn (Updated 4 Nov 2018 with links to tributes. Scroll to bottom of article) It’s a hot October morning in Brisbane. I open my email program to a message that Tony Joe White has died at 75. It’s only a handful of weeks since I received in the mail...
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