Warren Nunn The fake news catch-cry has become part of everyday language mainly because of America’s 45th President Donald Trump. Newspaper reporting down the years has included much serious, accurate recording of history; and some that has been downright sloppy and...
Warren Nunn Some really interesting data has emerged that shows there are ‘upside down’ canyons below the Antarctic ice. That should slow you down to picture what that looks like. Driven by currents created as the earth rotates, water from below is eating away at the...
Dogmatism is real. We can all have it. Back more than a century ago, when civil debate graced our newspapers, it was refreshing to read reasoned essays such as that that follows. Titled “The dogmatism of science” it appeared in the Spectator of 17 December...
Be careful not to label others Warren Nunn Appearances can be deceptive; that’s not in doubt. Assuming someone’s intelligence by their level of education or station in life is also something to be very careful about. All people have worth and intelligence. Some people...
A considered and needed response Warren Nunn Charles Darwin first learnt about geology from Adam Sedgwick, professor of geology at the University of Cambridge. But it was Sedgwick who first expressed grave misgivings about Darwin’s Origin of Species saying he read it...
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