In his A Short History of the World, Geoffrey Blainey writes that the ability to make and use fire was “the most useful tool possessed by the human race until recent times”. For all it’s astonishing usefulness, though, fire came to the human toolkit surprisingly late. Humans – or our
Dr Muriel Newman Dr Muriel Newman established the New Zealand Centre for Political Research as a public policy think tank in 2005 after nine years as a Member of Parliament. A former Chamber of Commerce President, her background is in business and education. nzcpr.com “The bedrock of any successful
Harry Palmer I was born in 1944 in Manchester, UK, four years before the introduction of the National Health Service. At the age of two or three, I entered into a relationship with the medical profession when I was taken to a doctor’s surgery by my mother. Though no
Calder Walton Assistant Director, Applied History Project and Intelligence Project, Harvard Kennedy School “Oppenheimer,” the epic new movie directed by Christopher Nolan, takes audiences into the mind and moral decisions of J. Robert Oppenheimer, leader of the team of brilliant scientists in Los Alamos, New Mexico, who built the world’
Benjamin Williams Benjamin Williams is a fellow with FEE’s Henry Hazlitt Project for Educational Journalism. He has produced videos and written content for many libertarian organizations such as the Mises Institute and Students For Liberty. Under the alias PraxBen on TikTok, he has amassed over 200,000 followers and
If you’re of a certain age, you’ll almost certainly remember The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams on the telly. I never watched it myself, but, by cultural osmosis, I still know about John Adams and Gentle Ben. What I certainly didn’t know is the real story
Reading old science fiction is an often eye-opening glimpse of long-discarded scientific theories. Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, for instance, refers to the idea that continents grew from atolls. Whole libraries of SF were built on the long-debunked notion of Martian canals. The
Jon Miltimore fee.org Jonathan Miltimore is the Managing Editor of FEE.org. (Follow him on Substack.) His writing/reporting has been the subject of articles in TIME magazine, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Forbes, Fox News, and the Star Tribune. Bylines: Newsweek, The Washington Times, MSN.com, The Washington
Today marks the anniversary of the darkest day in Australian military history. On the evening of 19 July 1916, troops of the 5th Australian Division, in conjunction with the British 61st Division, launched an attack on the heavily fortified German line in front of the Aubers ridge. By the end
Richard Kelly Richard Kelly, a retired 60 yo, born and bred in Melbourne. He spent a couple of years as a mathematics teacher before moving into Insurance and Superannuation/Investments first as a trainee actuary and then as a business analyst with some of the largest institutions in Australia and
Alwyn Poole Alwyn Poole founded and was the head of Mt Hobson Middle School in Auckland for 18 years. MH Academy is now an in person private school for Year 11-13. There is now a nationwide online provision called Mt Hobson Academy Connected for Years 1-13. alwynpoole.substack.
Thorsteinn Siglaugsson Thorsteinn Siglaugsson is an Icelandic consultant, entrepreneur and writer and contributes regularly to The Daily Sceptic as well as various Icelandic publications. He holds a BA degree in philosophy and an MBA from INSEAD. Thorsteinn is a certified expert in the Theory of Constraints and author of From
There’s a reason volleyball – especially its beach variety – and tennis are some of the most-watched women’s sports on television. Of course, the global ubiquity of soccer naturally translates to its top-ranking for televised women’s sports, but – let’s be honest here – men especially are tuning
