Three hundred years ago, Jonathan Swift wrote about scientists trying to make pillows from marble and food from faeces. If Swift was able to take scientists with a pinch of sodium chloride, why can’t we?
I have a problem.
How do I stretch ‘Wow!’ into a one thousand-word article?
Ok, how’s this for starters: ‘Wow, wow… and wow, again!’?
Throughout most of the 20th century some scientists, including the highly esteemed astronomer, Percival Lowell, were convinced there were canals on Mars.
Seven hundred years ago, Dante Alighieri told us that the deepest level of the Inferno consists not of fire, but ice.
Larry Mounser has worked as a Geophysicist, a volunteer environmental campaigner, an aid worker, a writer for TV, Radio and Print, and an Internet developer.
Larry taught Physics at Taylors College for more than ten years, and was Visiting Associate Lecturer in Media, in the Study Abroad Department, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, for almost 20 years. Larry has a Bachelor of Science, a Diploma of Education, and a Master of Arts in Writing.
He has been published in the Sydney Morning Herald, the Canberra Times, the Brisbane Courier Mail, the Good Weekend, Inside Sport, The Sunday Telegraph's 'Sunday' magazine and 2MMM FM.
Freud said being immobile, after our birth, creates an association between mobility and problem solving. Our first big problem is that we can’t move.