Dick's Blog

It’s no secret that pop music is big business, and a top 10 hit will normally rake in millions of dollars for the artists and record company...

It has long been recognised that the weather can affect our general mood and feelings of well-being. Cabin fever is a well-known psychologic...

One of Australia’s earliest but least known world champions was the extraordinary Albert Griffiths, popularly known at the time as “Young Gr...

Nearly all of us are used to flying around the country, and indeed the world, in the amazing modern aircraft that are such triumphs of engin...

I still have a copy of a great book I first read many years ago, called “Hunter”, by Mr. J.A Hunter, Game Warden of Kenya between 1923 and 1...

One of the most remarkable individuals in the history of mathematics must surely be the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, (1887 – 19...

Weather is supposedly humanity’s most discussed topic and when we look at the effect it has across a wide variety of human affairs, this is ...