Think of the word “fossil” and you will almost certainly picture bones. That’s because fossilisation is an incredibly rare and unusual process that prefers the hardest parts of organisms: bones, teeth, shells, woody trunks. Fossils of organisms lacking bones or shells, or the soft body parts of those that
Lawrence W. Reed fee.org Lawrence W. Reed is FEE’s President Emeritus, Humphreys Family Senior Fellow, and Ron Manners Global Ambassador for Liberty, having served for nearly 11 years as FEE’s president (2008-2019). He is author of the 2020 book, Was Jesus a Socialist? as well as Real
AHNZ ahnz.anarkiwi.co.nz New Zealand is a Dutch discovery and the naming of our country was the cutting-edge part of a ground-breaking and bold Enlightenment statement to the world. Abel Tasman took his discovery home to Holland where it was added to the charts¹ by master cartographer Joan
From Piscador to Sephardi Kitchen Traditions As we all know, the Spanish (Sephardi) have very clear titles for the ones that willingly participate in bloodletting at the bull ring. Matadors, picadors and toreadors all have their highly skilled roles fancy hats and costumes with some attracting more girls and accolades
Craig Rucker cfact.org Craig Rucker is a co-founder of CFACT and currently serves as its president. One of the toughest challenges for the global warming crowd occurs when, after the passage of time, the doom they predicted is nowhere to be seen. Dr. Jay Lehr rounded up ten prominent
History, it is said, is written by the victors. When the vanquished were of a pre-literate society, moreover one noted for its insular reticence about its religious beliefs (“I swear by the gods my people swear by”), then it is no wonder we know so little about its practitioners. Hence,
We are running another yet fantastic book giveaway for our subscribers. The prizes are copies of Keith Mexsom’s latest book Gas Pedal to Back-Pedal – The Second Century of Auckland Transport which is Part Two of a planned trilogy that builds on the founding and development of Auckland’s transport
David Daintree mercatornet.com David Daintree is Director of the Christopher Dawson Centre for Cultural Studies, in Hobart, Tasmania. To anyone with a strong stomach and a willingness to face up to some grim truths about human nature, I recommend this two-part documentary on the Hitler Youth movement (the Hitler-Jugend)
Free Press ACT Party Hard to Find Material If you would like to read Roger Partridge’s latest excellent column, it is here on Chris Trotter’s blog. Normally Roger’s columns appear in the Herald. This one, a thoughtful critique of the Government’s proposed New Zealand History curriculum,
At the Centennial of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1940 the speech of one of the most respected and prominent Maori individuals in NZ history, Sir Apirana Ngata, confirmed three things. 1. Maori activists back then were playing the exact same broken record that they are still playing today. At
Mixed Nuts and Chocolate Marquise This is one of those super tasty chocolate deliriums that you can’t resist, just can’t believe how tasty it was, but wish you never ate it. Even on passover after brushing the matzah crumbs from the table cloth, a meal isn’t complete
Dr Sheree Trotter israelinstitute.nz “Ten measures of beauty were bestowed upon the world; nine were taken by Jerusalem, and one by the rest of the world.”1 Babylon Talmud, Tractate Keddushin 49 This quote from the Babylonian Talmud of late antiquity conveys the magic and mystery of the place
Hendrik van der Breggen mercatornet.com Hendrik van der Breggen, PhD, is a retired philosophy professor who lives in Steinbach, Manitoba, Canada. Hendrik’s parents survived the Nazi occupation of The Netherlands. Lebensunwertes Leben is German for “life unworthy of life.” As a justification of killing, this idea led to
The notion of the “lost continent” of Lemuria was first put forward in the mid-19th century, attempting to explain the presence of lemur fossils in both Madagascar and India and nowhere in between. Zoologist Philip Sclater proposed that, like Atlantis, Lemuria had “sunk beneath the waves”, in what is now
We are running another yet fantastic book giveaway for our subscribers. The prizes are copies of Keith Mexsom’s latest book Gas Pedal to Back-Pedal – The Second Century of Auckland Transport which is Part Two of a planned trilogy that builds on the founding and development of Auckland’s transport
Jack Marx’s Australian Tragic might sound like the stuff of yellow journalism, but it’s far from it. Instead, Marx relates with compassion and empathy the stories “from Australia’s dark heart”, with an especial ear for the survivors and victims. One of the most tragic is the story
