An entrée into Aussie Slang You’re in the great town of Bumbunga in South Australia, and you befriend one of the locals. You buy him a beer to be friendly. He then shares a story about his mate Bazza. How much do you think you would understand? ‘My mate
Are we the only animals that enjoy sex? I was walking my two little dogs on the beach the other day. As usual, they were their usual obedient little souls; not very much. I started thinking I needed a Dr. Doolittle person to get inside their minds. It was
“Queen of the Faguchis.” Every now and then I branch out into fiction. This crazy story (shows you what a sick mind I have!) won a Top Story of the week on one of the platforms that I write for. Hope you like it for a bit of light relief.
Part III- Something so small has changed life for us all The previous two parts of this series demonstrated how viruses are a force to be reckoned with. They: Have two simple requirements: multiply and survive. Are sex maniacs like nothing else that we know. They can change their
Part II A Good Virus Always Changes Its Spots In the first part of this series, I explored how viruses transfer themselves and hide in non-human hosts. This is epitomized in the bat. Many viruses (including COVID) infect bats and use them as hosts. Bats, because of their unique
Part I – Hitchhikers Extraordinaire What breeds faster than you can think, hits you like a freight train, and has no mercy? A virus, that’s what. In this series of three articles, I am going to take a look at just how clever these little buggers are. I had my
The true explanations are unobtainable; they just are! You just can’t spend too long thinking about some things without getting a headache. Some people call them imponderables, and some just don’t have a complete answer. Some are relatively simple but intriguing. For example, why do paper cuts hurt so
Expelling four myths about water consumption. You want me to drink how much water? I have never been one of those people who have a water bottle surgically attached to their hand. I have always subscribed to the theory that ‘What goes in must come out’ and have
Do you love or hate spiders? Don’t believe everything you read about spiders, good or bad. I read a strange article a couple of weeks ago. It was about a myth that body lotion attracts spiders, especially wolf spiders. The expert interviewed (an ‘arachnonut’, someone who is crazy about