This is our world

What to make of it? © Warren Nunn It is 2017 and there a number of matters consuming the world at this point in time arguably the worst of which is the dreadful and ongoing carnage in the Middle East and elsewhere in which individuals or groups use violence to...

Looking beyond the obvious

Henry Peter Brougham Warren Nunn Astute readers will sometimes complain that something has been taken out of context, particularly—but not exclusively—in newspapers. It can be the result of a misunderstanding or it can be done to mislead people. Henry Peter Brougham...

Funny business, that storytelling

Shape shifters 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 of animal and plant cells had...