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This is the feedback site for "Nutshell" which we discussed in October.  Below is an outline of some of the aspects discussed. ...

In Genesis12 and following Abraham lives in Ur of the Chaldees, a place known for moon worshippers .   He is approached by El Shaddai to cr...

The background to the flood episode in Genesis 6-11 is the “Epic of Gilgamesh”, written in the Akkadian language of Babylonia and Assyria, ...

During their exile in Babylonia the Israelites began to put together the book about their beliefs. They started the Bible with a story abo...

The year 587 BC was a turning point for the peoples who wrote the bible. The Babylonia Empire invaded their land and Jerusalem fell. Worse,...

Visited the Galápagos islands, Ecuador, this year. The 'Charles Darwin Research Foundation', founded by a Belgian, is an unusal zoo ...

There’s an intriguing story told about that eye-catching insect, the bumblebee. In summertime it is frequent to see its plump form buzzing a...

I know a researcher who worked for the Swiss government at the cutting edge of nuclear medicine investigation - non-invasive brain scanning....

This intriguing question was put to some astronauts when they came back from trips into space. The expected answer would have been that ...

The Cloud is the trendy name for the process of computing in Web2.0 when all our data will be on the Internet - in the cloud. The advantages...

There is an interesting talk broacast on ted.com which purports to share a powerful idea about ideas. It is recommendable because the speak...

When I wrote with a typewriter I was actually just copying from a handwritten script, principally because updating the text meant typing it ...

People have walked the Original Way or Camino Primitivo to Santiago for over a thousand years. It was opened by the Asturian king Alphonse I...

In Spain there is a famous anisette drink which rose to advertising glory at the beginning of the 20th. century. In order to sell more of th...

My website editor would have me believe that 'What you see is what you get'. This is akin to asking me to believe that the website w...

The prevalent Christian representation of the cross is the depiction of a crucified dead man. There is often plenty of blood, always nail...

In a recent interview Scott McNealy, former CEO of Sun systems for 22 years, said that he and his company were fully behind the promotion of...

Your state of mind can be influenced through colour according to the geocromotherapy model. Red is an exciting stimulus. It capacitates and ...

George Soros, one of the most successful stock market players, revealed one of the clues to his knack for earning easy money in a BBC interv...

David Gordon gave a workshop course on Modelling in Whally, Lancashire, UK. It was to complement his book on the subject. This was not an in...