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Monthly archives: May 2017

Lion cub — In April, I was lucky enough to be in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park for two weeks. It is a very special place, beautiful and wild. There are lots of animals, you do have to work for them though. The distances are long, and the road rough. Lions were seen almost every […]

Lions of Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park

22nd May 2017 in Nature photography tagged Kgalagadi / lions by Derek Keats

South Africa — We humans are story creators, or at least some of us are. We create good stories (freedom, human rights, dignity), stupid stories (new age woo woo, health foods, beauty products, astrology), dangerous stories (homeopathy, race, class), and outrageously harmful stories (countries, gods, religions), as well as stories that seem to […]

In South Africa, there is something wrong with our story

21st May 2017 in Critical thinking by Derek Keats

Giant Kingfisher — I am going to try a little activity log for a change. Today, unusually in the afternoon, I went up to look for the Verreaux’s Eagle (black eagle) at Walter Sisulu National Botanical Garden in Roodeport. As usual, the garden was full of people enjoying the lawns and scenery for […]

Giant kingfishers at Walter Sisulu National Botanical Garden

20th May 2017 in Birds and bird photography tagged birding / kingfisher by Derek Keats

Medicine — Note this is an old post that I forgot to publish!! I care about truth. Of course I care about other things too, but that is not the purpose of this post. The purpose of this post it to ask the question “why do smart people often care so little […]

If wishes were courses, people might think: the hazards of ...

20th May 2017 in Critical thinking by Derek Keats