by Peter | Aug 31, 2026 | archaeologists, boomerang, human ingenuity, skill
The world’s oldest boomerang is older than previously thought, casting new light on the ingenuity of humans living at the time. The tool, which was found in a cave in Poland in 1985, is now thought to be 40,000 years old. Archaeologists say it was fashioned from...
by Peter | Aug 28, 2026 | live-die
Dyslexia, ADHD, autism, dyspraxia, being bi-polar – in their singular and co-morbid and simple and severe forms – are currently labelled as different forms of neurodiversity. As such it is almost impossible to avoid being informed by the media that some...
by Peter | Aug 24, 2026 | brain, education, write
First a general comment. Dr Max Pemberton is experiencing the same kind of vested interest opposition that Profs Elliott & Grigorenko experienced several years ago on the publication of their The Dyslexia Debate. Elliott and Grigorenko’ were not saying that...
by Peter | Jul 22, 2026 | back - behind, left-right, social standing
Right back and left behind There is a strange asymmetry between the way we use left and right with the words back and behind. On the one hand, right back and left back are generally ‘value-free’ . They are labels for two positions on a field of play, so in...
by Peter | Jul 15, 2026 | charismatic, finger, fingerspitzengefuehl, Hitler, intuition, Nazi
“Nevile Henderson also suspected that the key to Adolf Hitler’s success might be to do with his boundless self-confidence, backed up by his intuitive sense of what to do next. Henderson, like Dahlerus , never found Hitler charismatic and puzzled throughout...
