Offbeat Ponderings

Imagine you suddenly slipped through a wormhole in the space-time continuum and found yourself back in the year 1869.  If you could convince...

I just feel really down when I go into a hospital, or Job Centre, or anywhere where people are studiously working, and it's all quietish...

There are mysteries regarding existence that are sufficiently complex, obscure, opaque or recondite that none of us can ever hope to fathom....

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...