The Ice is Melting

The US are being taken to the UN for their failure to prevent temeperature rises which are damaging the protected area  of Waterton-Glacier Peace Park (see here).
Despite Bush recently thawing his hostility to climate change science (well, he had to, really, he was starting to look stupid in the face of the overwhelming scientific concensus), this [...]

An alternative Bible for American schools

I’m currently reading A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson. I’m just over a hundred or so pages into it and we have reached the discovery of the Dinosaurs. It’s an excellent book, written in Bryson’s trademark prose – humorous, digestible, and impeccably structured.
I never thought I would enjoy a book [...]