Tales from the toilet

The importance of place to James Baldwin

hen giving talks on UFOs I’m sometimes asked which single event offers the best evidence for intelligent alien life. Until the recent preprint report from the Planetary Habitability Laboratory conclud

How she turned rejection into lifelong fortune, favour and independence

Q My grandfather, Thomas Gilbert Holman, was born in 1869/70. The earliest record I have for him is as a ‘visitor’ in the household of Walter Fitch, in Kelvedon, Essex, in the 1911 census. He is singl

Peter J Gaskin of Ipswich, Suffolk remembers: I have been a Status Quo fan for many years and try to see them every time they come to my home town of Ipswich in Suffolk. In 1999, the Quo embarked on t

Many birds have fabulous plumage to attract mates or send warning messages. Some of the colours in their feathers are produced by microscopic structures on the feather surface that absorb and reflect