It is the 4th July, Independence Day in the USA, and NASA has successfully smashed something the size of a washing machine into a gigantic comet. The aim of the cosmic collision, and I gather it was successful, was to find out what is inside comets. … [Read more...] about God Bless America
Archives for July 4, 2005
Teach Me to Fish
Africa is in the news. I lived in Madagascar and then Kenya from 1985 through to 1992. Here I am in in the far south-west of Madagascar in about 1986, Jen stopping for lunch. This was one way of getting about in Madagascar in the mid 1980s, by … [Read more...] about Teach Me to Fish