Health
Science
20th Century
Focke-Wulf Fw 190, Part 2
I’m back again with the second part of this series about the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 – the Luftwaffe’s forgotten fighter. In the first part we covered the genesis of the Fw 190 and how the [more…]
Arts
Midlife and the search for the ‘Wild Man’
Midway in life’s journey, I found myself in a dark wood, having lost the way. -The Comedy of Dante Alighieri This perhaps an off-beat subject for GP, but one that affects everybody at some stage [more…]
20th Century
Aspiring Anorak Aversion Therapy
The subject heading may read as though it is an introduction to an accountancy exam, but no, it is aversion therapy applied to an obsession, by licensed operators of machines such as the Dehavilland Chipmunk [more…]
Communism
The Last Hurrah for ‘Global Warming’?
One of the areas in which the UK has lost control during its membership of the EU is that of being able to respond to the climate change agenda. True, both the UK and the [more…]
Authoritarianism
Climate Change Protests
Yet another climate protest against our use of fossil fuels. Spokes-persons berate us over air-waves driven by generated electricity carried by steel pylons cemented into the ground. They sit in a studio with its array [more…]
Mathematics
Commutativity
A binary operation is said to commute if the order of the operands does not alter the result. In the real numbers, , the following commutative laws hold : for all for all Although these [more…]
Cooking
Ophiocordyceps unilateralis
Yes, there are two paths you can go by. But in the long run there’s still time to change which road you’re on. – Lao Tzu There exists in nature a particularly blasphemous little organism [more…]