Richard Zurawski

I hear that NASA is now getting ready to mount an expedition to Mars. Its going to cost trillions, take a small group of people away from the only place that we know of in the universe that not only has life, but may in fact, harbour all the life in the universe. And it’s [...]

What is it about lawns and people? It is something that has escaped me over the years, the yearning to have a patch of Kentucky green that would make Tiger Woods show up with his putter in tow. My approach has been minimalist to say the least, and I am sure some of my neighbours, [...]

With apologies to Steppenwolf, the sixties rock band, not the book by Hermann Hesse, I marvel at the internal combustion engine. About a century-and-a-half ago the first internal combustion engine, co-invented by Nicholas Otto, has gone from a handful of primitive blocks to now being numbered in the billions. The count is amazing. Two-stroke and [...]

Nothing like a quote from Oscar Wilde to get started. I hear a lot of clammer about the aging demographics and how too few children being born and that we need to make babies to keep the economic engine rolling along. Not only is there clammer, but there is money as well. In Quebec they [...]

As you may know, I am writing another weather book. This time it is about climate change and the Maritimes. I have just finished the first draft and it is now in front of my long suffering publisher and editor, who have to wade through the dire predictions and prognostications. And if all is well [...]

Here is some food for thought on the global warming/climate change front. In the Tuesday Sept 10 Globe and Mail, on the editorial page, there was an article about China and its contribution to the effluent that contributes to climate change. The statistic is this. China is now approaching the United States in terms of [...]