I had to warm a little to this place – its signature dish, ‘Biangbiang Noodles’, means you are trying to eat (with …
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West Timor – Mine of Women, and the Palm-Wine Bomb I never thought to see a mine run by women. By why …
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The first of a series showing where I eat in Nanjing. May be useful to other ex pats or travelers here. I …
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In Australia there are trees that look like inside-out chimneys. Strong but sensitive – a fungal attack can leave them as a …
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New Zealand GeologyNew Zealand paleobotanyNew Zealand plant fossils
Five Degrees of Global Warming – The Leaf Fossils of Kakahu, New Zealand
Sometime in the 1980s my Prof, ‘JDC’ (Doug Campbell of the Otago University), showed me a box of spectacular leaf fossils that …
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Roni is a Batak. This is a christian tribe that lives in the Lake Toba area of the otherwise Muslim Sumatra. The Bataks …
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On March 21, 2011 I was sent to do a job in the far south-east of Turkey. Me and Erol, my indispensable …
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Alexandra lies at the junction of the Clutha and Manuherikia Rivers. The usual translation of the Maori word ‘Manuherikia’ is that it means …
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It is a macabre thought that in these days of GIS and databases, someone could probably come up with a map of …
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A few years ago I used to teach American classes that came to the University of Queensland. One evening my Stanford class …