Monthly Archives: June 2021

On International Asteroid Day we are given the following information from the UN: Near-Earth objects (NEOs) represent potentially catastrophic threats to our planet. An NEO is an asteroid or comet which passes close to the Earth’s orbit.So, no danger of … Continue reading →

International Day of the Tropics: according to the UN, by 2050, the tropics will host most of the world’s people and two-thirds of its children.So, as they comment, “the future belongs to the Tropics”.

Logistics Day! Yay! This is what Brexit was for! Not.

Mildred Jane Hill was born on this day in 1859. Did this prompt Charles Darwin to publish On the Origen of Species (etc) several months later? Not as far as we know. Did Mildred Hill compose Happy Birthday to You? … Continue reading →

On International Day in Support of Victims of Torture the UN writes its piece under the heading Torture: a crime against humanity. It’s always timely to reflect on what makes us more human and what makes us less human. Discuss.

It’s the International Maritime Organization’s Day of the Seafarer, on the theme of a Fair Future for Seafarers. Good luck and good cheer to all in a time of rapid and alarming climate change.

It’s exactly 512 years since Henry VIII was crowned King Of England. I say this in the forward-looking spirit that typifies* much of English nationalism. *Not! (I’m not taking any chances on my sentiments in this being misunderstood.)

Fifth anniversary of the Brexit vote. Really? Only five years? It shows how much can change in a society in a relatively brief time. What if we could bring about a strong positive change over a five year span? It … Continue reading →

On this day in 1633 Galileo was forced by the Pope to recant his Copernican views that the Earth orbits the Sun. Just 42 years later the Royal Greenwich Observatory was established in England in the reign of Charles II. … Continue reading →

Today is, amongst many other things, World Music Day. Time to cerebrate! What? Think about it. Maybe we could just celebrate?(sighs) Okay.