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The Hitler Diaries — and a little brainteaser

Just over forty years ago one of the greatest scandals in press history took place. It led to a logical puzzle.

Oct 28

The Hitler Diaries — and a little brainteaser

Oct 28

Are COVID vaccines ineffective?

After initial dramatic success the number of infections is now creeping upwards. Does that show, as anti-vaxxers suggest, that the vaccines…

Jul 21

Are COVID vaccines ineffective?

Jul 21

What is that spot in the sky? And what is it doing?

How visual astronomy has advanced! Astronomers find one tiny dot in millions of others, and figure out what it is.

Jul 14

What is that spot in the sky? And what is it doing?

Jul 14

Religion and me (4)

The flood story in the Bible occupied me quite intensely

Jun 24

Religion and me (4)

Jun 24

A Lifetime with Farook — Eulogy 2

Adventures in the jungles, Guru Freddy and gourmet cooking

May 31

A Lifetime with Farook — Eulogy 2

May 31

A Lifetime with Farook — Eulogy 1

He was one of our dearest friends, for over half a century. With his passing we can only be grateful that we met this extraordinary person…

May 4

A Lifetime with Farook — Eulogy 1

May 4

Lab leak or wet markets? The question remains

We have been told that the devastating Covid-19 virus probably escaped from Wuhan virus laboratories. Or maybe not. It may have come from…

Feb 8

Lab leak or wet markets? The question remains

Feb 8

Religion and me (3)

My early religious education saw Jesuits arguing with highly qualified science teachers.

Jan 31

Religion and me (3)

Jan 31

Humane and inhumane killing

I am principally against executing humans, however insidious their crimes. But if it must be done, at least keep it humane.

Jan 25

Humane and inhumane killing

Jan 25

The Return of the Stick Insect

How a creature that was considered extinct for many decades was found on a rocky Pacific island and saved for the world.

Jan 7

The Return of the Stick Insect

Jan 7

The Friedel Chronicles

The Friedel Chronicles

Frederic Alois Friedel, born in 1945, science journalist, co-founder of ChessBase, studied Philosophy and Linguistics at the University of Hamburg and Oxford.

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