David Aitken

Avoiding Post-Pandemic Panic

By the time the future arrives, it is disguised as the present, and almost immediately slips away into the past.  The past is lost...

Male Wasps Don’t Behave At All

A Vespa is a luxury motor scooter made in Italy and was considered to be the bee's knees in the 1950s and beyond.  Which...

Who are those masked men (and women)?

In the past, if a book fell on your head, you only had your shelf to blame.  But coronavirus has changed everything, including our...

Accidents Seem to Form Queues

Life can be a minefield, and not always at ground (or underground) level.  Boats sink, planes plummet from the sky, I once tumbled from...

Curiosity isn’t Good for Cats

How many philosophers does it take to screw in a light bulb?  There is no clear answer to that yet, because they are still...

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