Monthly Archives: March 2015

It has been a bizarre week. The crash of the Germanwings Airbus on Tuesday now appears to have been murder-suicide; 150 people died in this horrific incident in the French Alps. The Black Box has yet to be found but … Continue reading →

Strange word? Perfidy. Yes, I hardly ever use it and it may not be right one to describe what I keep on experiencing. Let me explain… As a research chemist and later as Director of the Kids and Science Foundation, … Continue reading →

You can do a lot of things with fingers; offensive gesturing is just one. I’ve seen it a few times on the road where another driver wanted to tell me something and more recently it has been in the news. … Continue reading →

All my life I have been one, and I have no plans now to change this. Like my father, I see the good in people and hardly ever the bad. The future is full of wonderful things to discover and … Continue reading →

It’s still a common expression (for middle-aged or older people) – the greatest thing since sliced bread. Every time there was a fundamentally new product entering the market, you heard people use it. The genius who thought of slicing bread … Continue reading →