As you might have noticed, the Gruts website is looking slightly different.
Author: Richard Carter
A fat, bearded chap with a Charles Darwin fixation.
Guacamole rigmarole!
Pre-op banter.
Book review: ‘Darwin’s Backyard’ by James T Costa
How small experiments led to a big theory.
Pundit
I’m not watching the soccer, but, dear England fans, the moment to get really worried is when the commentators start using the phrase ‘still mathematically possible’.
Book review: ‘Dispelling the Darkness’ by John van Wyhe
Voyage in the Malay Archipelago and the discovery of evolution by Wallace and Darwin.
Book review: ‘Victorians Undone’ by Kathryn Hughes
I was given this book as a birthday present by a friend. I presume it was the chapter entitled Charles Darwin’s Beard that made her think I might like it. What can I say: my friends know the kind of topics that interest me. At first glance, judging the book by its over-salacious subtitle, I… Continue reading Book review: ‘Victorians Undone’ by Kathryn Hughes
Book review: ‘Ground Work’ by Time Dee (ed.)
Writings on places and people.
The terror Carter’s warriors!
My photos from Liverpool World Museum's ‘China’s First Emperor and the Terracotta Warriors’ exhibition, 2018.
Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!! Nice one, chancellor!
Guardian: UK will build own satellite system if frozen out of EU's Galileo – chancellor The chancellor, Philip Hammond, has warned that the UK will build its own satellite navigation system to rival the European Union’s €10bn Galileo project if Brussels carries out its threat to block access.
Celebrate our heritage!
Nasty little ginger shit to wed Angela Merkel.