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Title	Author	Hits
The Pandemic turns Two	Written by Richard_McKie	Hits: 1913
DUNE	Written by Richard_McKie	Hits: 1074
Christmas 1935	Written by Richard_McKie	Hits: 899
On Point Counter Point	Written by Richard_McKie	Hits: 1111
More on 'herd immunity'	Written by Richard_McKie	Hits: 3995
Love in the time of Coronavirus	Written by Richard_McKie	Hits: 12805
The First Man on the Moon	Written by Richard_McKie	Hits: 5129
More on Technology and Evolution	Written by Richard_McKie	Hits: 8081
Dan Brown's 'Origin'	Written by Richard_McKie	Hits: 6608
The Greatest Aviation Mystery of All Time	Written by Richard_McKie	Hits: 8078

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Travel

Central Australia

In June 2021 Wendy and I, with our friends Craig and Sonia (see: India; Taiwan; Japan; China; and several countries in South America) flew to Ayer's Rock where we hired a car for a short tour of Central Australia: Uluru - Alice Springs - Kings Canyon - back to Uluru. Around fifteen hundred kilometres - with side trips to the West MacDonnell Ranges; and so on.

Fiction, Recollections & News

The U-2 Incident

In 1960 the Russians shot down an American U-2 spy plane that was overflying and photographing their military bases. The U-2 Incident was big news when I was in High School and I remember it quite clearly.

The Incident forms the background to Bridge of Spies a 2015 movie, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Hanks and Mark Rylance from a screenplay written by Matt Charman together with Ethan and Joel Coen that centres on these true events.

Spielberg and the Cohen Brothers. Who could miss it?

Opinions and Philosophy

The demise of books and newspapers

Most commentators expect that traditional print media will be replaced in the very near future by electronic devices similar to the Kindle, pads and phones. Some believe, as a consequence, that the very utility of traditional books and media will change irrevocably as our ability to appreciate them changes. At least one of them is profoundly unsettled by this prospect; that he argues is already under way.