BBC: Mt Everest grows by nearly a metre to new heightThe world’s highest mountain Mount Everest is 0.86m higher than had been previously officially calculated, Nepal and China have jointly announced.
Author: Richard Carter
A fat, bearded chap with a Charles Darwin fixation.
No relation to Janet
BBC: Ex-Great Ormond Street porter faces sex charges
Book review: ‘On the Origin of Species’ by Charles Darwin (1st ed., 1859)
…or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.
Book review: ‘Agent Running in the Field’ by John le Carré
Spycraft and badminton in Brexit Britain.
Book review: ‘Renegade’ by Mark E. Smith
The lives and tales of Mark E. Smith.
Here we go again!
With Lockdown 2.0 rapidly approaching, I’ve just been out panic-buying a few staples.
Book review: ‘Tamed’ by Alice Roberts
Ten species that changed our world.
Spotted a window of opportunity…
See also: The Devil Woman Game.
Book review: ‘Ghosts on the Shore’ by Paul Scraton
Travels along Germany’s Baltic coast.
Book review: ‘Bully for Brontosaurus’ by Stephen Jay Gould
Reflections in Natural History.