In a little patch of shale, continually flaking onto the road near Bannockburn (central South Island, New Zealand), there are the unmistakable fossils …
Monthly Archives
February 2016
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Archaeology, History & Culture
Tim Flannery and Megafaunal Extinction Shuffle-puck
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleAre Australian lives and property being burnt as a result of something that happened tends of thousands of years ago? In 1994 …
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Autobiography & Travel
Cheap Eats Nanjing 14 – All You Can Eat – and Drink!
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleNot really one of the cheapest – by local standards, but hear me out….. This place is called Jinfushan, it’s an all …
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Palaeobotany & Palaeoclimate
New Zealand: The Jurassic fossil forest at Curio Bay
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleIf you make your way down to almost the bottom of New Zealand’s South Island, you can walk among the stumps of …
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I was sitting in a ger in Mongolia when I put up my hand to go to Indonesia. My ulterior motive was …
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I’ve seen two cities that look like they were comprehensively destroyed. I don’t mean just ruins, but places where someone seems to …
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This place is part of a chain called Huiwei. I first came across them elsewhere in Nanjing and for a couple of …

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