Me, my dogs, and our long march together through evolutionary time

As my lovely wife is fond of saying, we and our beloved doggies are thrown together by fate, but I want to go much further back in time than she’s normally thinking to consider what fate had in store up to a hundred million years ago when humans and canines were one species.  Since every… Continue reading Me, my dogs, and our long march together through evolutionary time

I am a lowly amoeba and I just killed the most powerful man in the world, changing all of history in the process

If Henry V survived, he would have been king of both England and France, forging one of the most powerful, if not the most powerful country on Earth at the time.  After I killed him however, a slow, agonizing death, not suited for a warrior, the world was changed forever. I am an amoeba and… Continue reading I am a lowly amoeba and I just killed the most powerful man in the world, changing all of history in the process

The real Henry V, the Magna Carta, and the glorious depravity we are heir to

Henry V was literally and figuratively born in blood, especially as his father became king after starving the former ruler, Richard II.  We should probably not spare Richard too much sympathy, however.  He was the last of the Plantagenet kings, who rose to power on a tide of violence in the 12th century, violence that… Continue reading The real Henry V, the Magna Carta, and the glorious depravity we are heir to