Gillian burke

I’m in exeter cathedral and i’m looking up at Antarctica. This is Gaia by artist Luke Jerram: a 7m-diameter model of Earth suspended above the nave, created from detailed NASA satellite imagery of the

Keepers at the Chimfunshi Wildlife Orphanage in Zambia have noticed a fashion trend spreading among groups of chimpanzees living there – sticking strands of grass in their ears or rectums, and just le

When famed country singer Willie Nelson’s home caught fire in 1969, he fought his way through the flames to rescue his best friend and bandmate, Trigger. Fifty-six years later, they’re still making mu

Bernard Mandeville’s defence of private vices with public benefits

A mbling along diani beach road, 30km south of Mombasa in Kenya, I am parallel with the Indian Ocean and minutes from the powdery, cream sand of Africa’s best-known beach. It’s February, the heart of

I t’s 2am and Grandpa Boofhead is feeling frisky, his bellows echoing through the moonlit eucalyptus trees around my house in the Adelaide Hills, South Australia. It’s early spring, the breeding seaso