Greenland
Beginning tomorrow (25th January) at London’s National Theatre is a new play, ‘Greenland’, that explores the issues around climate change. According to the website blurb, the production “draws together...
View ArticleExtinction Poems
The Feral Theatre blog recently published a selection of poems on the topic of extinction, written by students at the South Camden Community School. Here’s a couple of my favourites, about the...
View ArticleThe Truth, the Hole Truth…
In October 2009, an otherworldly cloud formation appeared over Moscow. The Sun (the newspaper, not the yellow ball in the sky) promptly announced the appearance of a ‘mystery UFO halo’ and, before too...
View ArticleCornelia and her Mutant Bugs
Reading through a recent BBC article about the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, I suddenly remembered a blog post that I’d started a couple months ago but never got around to finishing. I’ll get back to...
View ArticleAnother reason for Brits to worry about global warming…
…and a whole new meaning for the term ‘member state of the European Union’. Filed under: Environment, Humour
View ArticleSongs of Science #3: Bon Iver
“Holocene” is a song by Bon Iver (a.k.a. Justin Vernon), a man who proves that beards and falsettos aren’t incompatible. It’s a lovely, slow-burning track, built around a looped acoustic guitar and...
View ArticleSongs of Science #4: British Sea Power
In 2002, a huge chunk of the Larsen Ice Shelf – “Larsen B” – collapsed into the sea. In just over a month, an area the size of the US state Rhode Island vanished from the Antarctic Peninsula – the most...
View ArticleSongs of Science #7: Saint-Saëns
Camille Saint-Saëns was a French late-Romantic composer who’s probably best known for his The Carnival of the Animals suite – a lively musical journey through the natural world. Most of the suite’s 14...
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