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In 1798, the priest and economist Thomas Malthus (1766-1834) concluded from a study of plants and animals that man's excessive rate ...

The view from my window during our stay throughout most of April, May and June Well, what a journey!  Firstly the flight from London to ...

We have taken many great train journeys, from big ones like the journey across the Deccan Plateau from Bombay to Madras to little ones lik...

In this last episode of my shortest teaching stint, I want to begin with what is perhaps my biggest regret - before I pick up the thread of ...

This April has been the wettest since records began.  Gone are our hopes for a splendid springy R  &  R in Leicester. So far, 2012 has...

We're familiar with the 24th letter of the English alphabet in words like x-rated, x-ray, 'x' as the unknown factor in mathemati...

.........  and to continue where I left off.  I was writing about the nail in the coffin that the Nanyang cabal at Jurong Secondary School h...