DaveOnTheWestBank For many years, we have been inundated with scary stories about how the world is in dire trouble due to our changing climate. Forty-seven years ago, on June 24th 1974, Time Magazine reported droughts in Africa, floods in Pakistan and Japan, unseasonal cold weather in Canada’s wheat
Michael Cook mercatornet.com Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet No doubt you have heard of “advance directives” – guidelines for your carers, guardians or doctors on what do to in the event that you are not competent to instruct them. Right-to-die associations often promote them as a
One of the biggest problems for the climate alarmists is that their scary predictions of climate doom just keep flopping. For at least 30 years, alarmists have been shrieking that we’ve got just ten years to save the planet. Yet, so far, we have yet to be drowned, desertified,
Some time back, The BFD reported on recent archaeological research on Britain’s Cerne Abbas Giant. The Giant is one of the most famous example of a geoglyph, massive figures carved into the chalk hillsides of southern England. As recent studies indicate, the Giant is much older than supposed. Previously,
We’re all familiar with the First Law of the Shed: never throw anything out — it might come in handy, one day. Science is a lot like a shed: you never know when some old, apparently useless thing will come in handy. In forensic science, for instance, evidence collected decades,
The BFD staff attended as many of the protests on Friday as possible. We ran and updated this post continually throughout the day in order to keep those that couldn’t be there informed in order to highlight the magnitude of unrest around the country, and also to provide a
The BFD is very supportive of the fledgling Groundswell NZ protest movement and we encourage everyone who supports our Farmers, Growers and Tradies to put in an appearance if possible. As an amateur movement in its infancy, info has been a little slow in coming out but there is now
Ronald Stein cfact.org Ron Stein is an engineer who, drawing upon 25 years of project management and business development experience, launched PTS Advance in 1995. He is an author, engineer, and energy expert who writes frequently on issues of energy and economics. Ancient tree stumps found under glaciers in
Is there anything climate change can’t do? It’s making the world hotter, but it’s also to blame when climate protesters are left shivering in snowstorms. Climate change causes increased prostitution (but it also puts brothels out of business). Climate change is such a tricky beast that it
As we are all-too-aware, China has been stealing sensitive information from the West for years. The theft ranges from intellectual property worth billions a year, to scientific research, to military secrets. Now, we learn that China has been stealing the most sensitive data of all: our DNA. A
Simon Thornley covidplanb.co.nz We have recently been told that “Life’s not going to go back to 2019 any time soon.” and that we need at least 83% of us vaccinated for measures such as lockdowns and quarantines to be a thing of the past. Other experts said
Face it, everyone is fascinated by dinosaurs. We’re also fascinated by catastrophes, as anyone who’s ever seen lines of motorists slowing to rubberneck a car-crash knows. Put the two together and we have the prevailing theory that the dinosaurs were wiped out by a cataclysmic asteroid impact.
According to Douglas Adams, we humans live “far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western spiral arm of the galaxy”. But, while life is a bit quiet out here in the galactic ‘burbs, there’s plenty of stellar action going on in the galactic inner-
Robert Horvath La Trobe University Dr Robert Horvath is a specialist on Russian Politics, Civil Society and International Human Rights. His latest book, Putin’s ‘Preventive Counter-Revolution’ (Routledge, 2013) is a study of the programme of reforms and repression that transformed the face of Russian politics during Vladimir Putin’
When space probes like Voyager started sweeping past the outer planets like Jupiter and Saturn, they caused a sensation. What the first high-resolution images of the moons of the gas giants showed was that those satellites were a whole lot weirder than we’d ever imagined. Io turned out
