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    Tim Flannery and Megafaunal Extinction Shuffle-puck

    by Mike Pole February 21, 2016
    by Mike Pole February 21, 2016

    Are 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 Pole February 18, 2016
    by Mike Pole February 18, 2016

    Not 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 Pole February 15, 2016
    by Mike Pole February 15, 2016

    If 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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  • Biogeography & Vegetation

    The Honey Trees of Kalimantan

    by Mike Pole February 12, 2016
    by Mike Pole February 12, 2016

    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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    Turkey/Armenia: Ani – capital on the wrong side of a border

    by Mike Pole February 9, 2016
    by Mike Pole February 9, 2016

    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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  • Autobiography & Travel

    Cheap Eats Nanjing 13 – Savoury Pancakes

    by Mike Pole February 2, 2016
    by Mike Pole February 2, 2016

    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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  • Autobiography & Travel

    Mongolia – Nights under the nine stars of the Pleiades

    by Mike Pole January 26, 2016
    by Mike Pole January 26, 2016

    Erik von Daniken’s ‘Chariots of the Gods’ came to my town when I was a kid. Alexandra, New Zealand was perhaps a …

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  • Biogeography & Vegetation

    Lebanon – Last Gasp of the Cedar Forests

    by Mike Pole January 23, 2016
    by Mike Pole January 23, 2016

    Europe to Australasia is long-haul, and if you are not into heroics, it’s nice to break the journey somewhere. I wonder how …

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  • Autobiography & Travel

    Cheap Eats Nanjing 12 – Sticky Rice Cake and other nibblies

    by Mike Pole January 21, 2016
    by Mike Pole January 21, 2016

    I spotted this little take-away cake shop one evening after getting a cheese fix opposite. Pleasant woman in charge and bunch of …

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    Estonia – the Swamp and the language tree

    by Mike Pole January 16, 2016
    by Mike Pole January 16, 2016

    Estonia was my first-ever experience of driving, by myself, on the right hand side of the road. I tried to keep it simple. All I …

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