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Coronavirus – Covid-sars-19 – the long view.

Posted on June 17, 2020 by Elen Samuel

First the good news. The pandemic will end sometime, because they always do. There are three ways in which it could end. Firstly, with a vaccine or a really effective treatment for the severe cases. This is the best case … Continue reading →

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Lessons from Orkney.

Posted on May 30, 2019 by Elen Samuel

Like many other people, I read a huge amount of stuff on environmental matters every day, such as on the climate disaster-in-the-making, overconsumption, pollution of the environment by plastic and other man-made materials, extinction of animals and insects, and, at … Continue reading →

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Children taught adults the beginning of language, not the other way around

Posted on February 19, 2016 by Elen Samuel

I am never sure why scientists of all disciplines, anthropologists especially, say that the most distinctive thing about humans compared with all other primates is the fact that we walk upright. All right, it frees our hands to do all … Continue reading →

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