Charles Robert Bree ©Warren Nunn If the majority of modern scholars are to be believed, no 19th century man really spoke out in favour of the many and varied capacities that women possess, particularly in relation to their ability to match men in academia. We are told...
Warren Nunn Before a bottlenose dolphin eats an octopus, it shakes its prey and throws it into the air several times in what researchers describe as a tenderising process. If the dolphin doesn’t do this, it could be fatal because an octopus has been seen to attach to...
Rocamadour pilgrim © Warren Nunn September 2004. Warren Nunn, September 2004. Another Rocamadour pilgrim is Belgian violinist and sculptor Gregor Kartai who created a piece of J.R.R. Tolkein’s Middle Earth just metres from where most visitors park their cars before...
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...
Let me tell you something…. Warren Nunn 2017 Let me tell you a little story ….. no let the so-called scientific press tell you a whopper of a tale with a twist in the tail that’s just too silly for words. This is how one website served up some spin on...
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