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Friday, September 17, 2010

SID RAWLE OBIT

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This is my obituary of Sid Rawle, published in The Guardian   on 27th September. Full text can be read here : Important correction re...
Tuesday, September 14, 2010

ELECTRIC EDEN: BRITAIN’S VISIONARY MUSIC

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This 600p tub-thumper of a book traces a silver chain of inspiration - a vision of Albion, a lost Eden, the sacred countryside and the an...
Tuesday, August 31, 2010

BJØRN LOMBORG: GOOD PR?

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  Source: Bloomberg News. Today the lead story in The Guardian   trumpeted that Bjørn Lomborg, notorious for his book ‘The Sceptical Envir...
Monday, August 30, 2010

BIT GUIDE: OVERLAND THROUGH AFRICA

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On of the most popular posts on The Generalist is ALTERNATIVE SOCIETY 1970s: BIT Travel Guide , posted in August 2006. Many of you who used ...
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Sunday, August 29, 2010

SCIENCE NEWS: DINOSAUR EXTINCTION

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The idea that the death of the dinosaurs was caused by a meteorite impact first surfaced in 1980 – and captured my imagination. Now there ha...

SCIENCE NEWS: METEOR IMPACT CRATERS

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[Above & Left]: Aerial picture and geological map of the meteoric impact crater at Ries in Germany. [Below]: Landsat image of crat...
Saturday, August 21, 2010

GEOENGINEERING: PAST & PRESENT

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  The big theme of this blog is connectivity between people, places, things and ideas, and its content is often driven by chance and coincid...
Sunday, August 15, 2010

INSIDE DOPE: SPEED GOES GLOBAL

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(Top): Notable locations of manufacture and main trafficking routes of amphetamine group substances 2008-2009. (Below): Notable locations...
Tuesday, August 10, 2010

NUCLEAR FIRES: RUSSIA & USA

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The Russian Fires are causing threats to nuclear facilities and the area around Chernobyl. The story is being reported around the world. Her...

ARCHIVE: THE POISONING OF MOTHER RUSSIA

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This major news feature was published in the Sunday Times on 9th November 1980. It was an exclusive story that I sold to the paper, having b...

ARCHIVE: RUSSIAN CONSERVATIONIST ALGIRDAS KNYSTAUTUS

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This article was published in The Guardian on March 31st 1987. AFTER Chernobyl and the period of guilty secrecy immediately following t...