MIRIAM VERBEEK

We, along the northeast coast of Australia, are enduring the longest, wettest rainfall period since records began. Since the beginning of...

I’m sitting in a room beside the bed in which my father is slowly dying. I hear silence for a couple of minutes, turn my head wondering...

In Chapter 16 of Cryptal’s Champion (Book 2 of the “Songs of Si’Empra” series), Pedro reads a story that Ellen’s written. While he’s...

I guess I’m just naturally curious … or maybe I just like to give my grey cells a workout (though I seriously wonder whether they are...

Is that heading a question or a statement? I was well into my early teens before I had any idea of sex. I was more years older before I...

The first time I visited my relatives in the Netherlands, I was puzzled when my uncle asked me how I could bear to live in Australia. “It...

I n their April news item, the Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition (ASOC) highlighted the announcement of a new joint strategy to...

One whole summer holiday when I was about 15, I barely got out of my pyjamas (I remember they were bright yellow and very comfortable!)...

I decided, a couple of weeks ago, to go for my weekly run on a weekday rather than a weekend. This probably wasn't the smartest decision,...

They are simply not observing their behaviour (automated behaviour), and/or They are not in charge of their behaviour (maybe because of...

second blog of the series, I explained that there are additional things that determine our behaviour: our capabilities for ‘symbolism’,...

Symbolising capability – we can think in symbols and we can share symbols. For example, words in a language are symbols (or...

There’s a saying you’ve probably heard many times: power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely (attributed to Lord...

penguins on ice And, more importantly, when does twisting a fact discredit every other fact in the story? There is a lot that I wanted...

Footnote details:<1> “I’ve learnt” in the process of completing my doctorate "The effects of power on its users", University of New South...

A dictionary definition of beauty goes along the lines of ‘something that gives pleasure to the senses, often sight’. But do a google...

I am the only light-skinned, pale-haired, blue-eyed person in the queue. Lots of people keep joining the queue. The queue is a...

I’ve been interested in the idea of symbiosis since that sixth class Science lesson when Sister Bonaventure, our Science teacher, took us...