In all my outings in Mongolia, I never saw a wolf – I only heard them howling while camping out one night …
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Those who know me will know that I can recount more than my share of what are commonly known as ‘ghost experiences’. …
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Palaeobotany & Palaeoclimate
How Much Carbon Dioxide was in the Atmosphere of New Zealand’s Jurassic Curio Bay Fossil Forest?
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleHow do you figure out how much carbon dioxide was in the atmosphere millions of years ago? In the Jurassic, the fossil …
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I admit it, I was lurking in the back streets of ‘Old Tartarstan’, Kazan. Trouble is, I like old buildings, and particularly …
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Autobiography & Travel
Kazan – the Peacock Big Enough to be Seen from Space
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleIn about 2014 some genius decided to plant a peacock in front of the Kazan Kremlin. Kazan is the currently the capital …
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In Nanjing I waited for the Goldilocks time, not too cold, not too hot – to walk the entire Nanjing City Walls. The …
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Archaeology, History & Culture
Fifty, 500, or 5,000 years old? Ancient cultural landscape in the hills of Central Turkey
by Mike Poleby Mike Pole‘Fox-holes’ perhaps? Did snipers crouch in these to fire down on an enemy below? What were these little rings of rocks strategically …
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Autobiography & Travel
In the Footsteps of Anthony Bourdain: Restaurant CoCoCo in St Petersburg, Russia
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleA meal in CoCoCo, a top St Petersburg restaurant? One featured in an episode of TV chef Anthony Bourdain? Would I be …
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Archaeology, History & Culture
‘Woman with nails in both sides of skull’ – the Nanjing Massacre Memorial
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleArguably, the most shocking part of Iris Chang’s book ‘The Rape Of Nanking’, comes in its Epilogue. During my 12 months living …
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Palaeobotany & Palaeoclimate
Were there dinosaurs in New Zealand’s Jurassic Fossil Forest at Curio Bay?
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleIn the Jurassic you could have walked from what is now the fossil forest at Curio Bay in southernmost New Zealand (see …