Pulitzer-Prize-winning ruminations on the natural world.
Author: Richard Carter
A fat, bearded chap with a Charles Darwin fixation.
Fucking imbeciles
May signs letter that will trigger Brexit.
Urgent consignment
When you've lived in Hebden Bridge for as long as I have, you become accustomed to seeing peculiar things. But, on occasion, you can still be taken by surprise.
Utopia To Let
…in Stratford Precinct.
Temporary apologies
Sign spotted at motorway services.
Book review: ‘Man of Iron’ by Julian Glover
Thomas Telford and the Building of Britain.
Mum
Mum would have been 80.
He's a 60 year old man…
Happy 60th birthday, Mark E Smith.
Book review: ‘The Making of the British Landscape’ by Nicholas Crane
From the Ice Age to the Present.
Book review: ‘The Panda’s Thumb’ by Stephen Jay Gould
More Reflections in Natural History. The second of Stephen Jay Gould’s long-running series of popular science essay collections that first appeared in his monthly column in Natural History magazine, The Panda’s Thumb covers topics including: how imperfections in organisms’ demonstrate their evolutionary history; Charles Darwin and his theories; human evolution; science and politics; the rate… Continue reading Book review: ‘The Panda’s Thumb’ by Stephen Jay Gould