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Cabbages, cabbage trees and the dwindling web of life
“The Creator, if he exists, has a special preference for beetles.”
The quote above is often misquoted, as is the attribution...
Dr. Mark Nicholson
7 min read
Zanzibar: The Lost Paradise
It’s not often – to say the least – that the Arab world has cause to celebrate the awarding of the Nobel Prize for Literature...
Dr. Jehad Al-Omari
7 min read
Life Lesson: Do it now; it’s later than you think
everal articles ago, in The Perfect Pitch, I wrote that “Less is more” was my second favourite aphorism. A few readers have asked me...
Richard Pooley
5 min read
Western animal sentimentalism is causing the destruction of African wildlife
In the last issue of Only Connect, I wondered whether the campaign in the West to ban trophy hunting might result in precisely the opposite
Richard Pooley
7 min read
Kings of the Jungle
We don’t know who came up with the phrase King of the Jungle, but we imagine it must have been someone living in India
Denis Sengeny, Harrison Nabaala, Naitereu Soit & Mark Nicholson
6 min read
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