Offbeat Ponderings

I'm just wondering what I would do if, say tomorrow, when I woke up I bizarrely found myself in my 15-year-old body back where I used to...

Suppose someone -- let's call him Peter -- were kidnapped, and the kidnapper is a psychopath and sets up some explosion device that is t...

I think a spiffing idea for a novel would be if a group of people want back in time to the age of the dinosaurs, say about 80 million years ...

From the following article: Humans Aren’t The Only Animals To Experience Jealousy — Dogs Do, Too It says: Jealousy is a fairly common human ...

I have no idea what peoples lives were like centuries ago. Say in 1300 or whenever. Were the common people mostly hungry all the time? Const...

I read the following article: The Cult of Busy-ness The author says: [Steve Jobs] was a man who lived a life almost completely devoid of any...

Imagine if you went back in time to 1770 and showed Isaac Newton a modern smartphone (obviously can't make calls, but the camera, torch,...

I've heard it claim that two-thirds of human conversation is gossip about other people. Surely not?? Anyway, I scarcely ever talk about ...

I really have no idea what the future might be like in, say, 400 years time or so. What will the world be like in 2404? What will have happe...

What would the world be like if I had never been born? Exactly the same as very few people have known me and even those that have never list...

I was just thinking. Suppose I went into a supermarket, a large one to shop for my groceries. It's fairly quiet as it's early evenin...

The fact that you can’t see your eyes doesn’t mean that you don’t have any. Likewise, the fact we cannot see the self doesn't mean that ...