A Michael Broad Blog
In general – there are many exceptions – humans don’t like their anatomy. Infographic. by Michael Broad More: human behaviour Is there any connection between the infographic and cats?! Well, I believe that there is. It’s about sterility. A lot of what we do to ‘improve’ our anatomy is to make it more sterile …
Angela Merkel’s 736-page memoir, Freiheit (Freedom), will be published next week. In this long book, she refers to a 2007 meeting with Vladimir Putin at Sochi, the Black Sea resort. At the time Putin owned a large, lumbering black labrador, Konni, which he allowed to join them during the meeting. He ‘allowed’ (encouraged) his …
In India, a man was fatally trampled by a wild elephant as he tried to take a selfie in Maharashtra’s western region. India reportedly has recorded the highest number of selfie deaths followed by the US and Russia. A man in southern India was mauled to death earlier in February by an Asiatic lion after he …
Here is an infographic prepared by me which explains the origins of human kissing as per a theory proposed by Adriano Lameira (and team), an evolutionary psychologist at the University of Warwick in the UK. What all kisses have in common Lameiro concluded was a “protruding of the lips and slight suction”. He then …
The news in my newspaper today is that a real-life Indiana Jones has discovered a series of graves beneath the ‘Treasury’ in a hidden crypt at that wonderfully famous temple in Petra, Jordan. He is thrilled to bits that he has discovered 12 bodies which appear to have lain undisturbed for 2000 years. There …
Anger can be a powerful motivator when it is well-directed and managed. Infographic. by Michael Broad This is not a boast. I am being factual. My anger at the great need to improve animal welfare across the planet in all aspects of the human-animal relationship has motivated me for 17 years in running this …
A comparison of the biomass of humans, wildlife and livestock is interesting. The livestock we rear makes up “more than 10 times the biomass of wild animals and birds” in the worlds of Godfrey-Smith. Human domination can be measured in many ways but one crude yet revealing metric is biomass by Michael Broad He …
NEWS AND COMMENT: the story comes from Japan where theft remains relatively rare resulting in perhaps, by European standards, lax security. This is one important aspect of the story and the second is the fact that the price of copper has increased and continues to increase dramatically as it hit a record high of …
