Indeed. The human advantages of big brain and bipedalism come at a cost of very tricky and painful birth - resulting in a lot of lost children and mothers, relative to other mammals - and children bo… (View Post)

Surely people aren't that much more or less unpleasant from one town to the next? And yet this is definitely isn't the first time I've been told that about Ilkley. I once cycled from S… (View Post)

Bright braw cloudless nights that start at 5pm can lift tge spirits every bit as much as endless sunny days. In the minutes it's taken to leave the office and arrive home, dusk has been replaced… (View Post)

At the equinox. (View Post)

Only just looked in - thanks for the nod! I buy the argument that you have cause and effect the wrong way around there - we were first to industrialise because we were so damn fecund that we could no… (View Post)