Debt of Honour

Digger's slouch hat showing double diamond insignia of 2nd/2nd

Debt of Honour, a feature exhibition at the Museum of Western Australia on the 2nd World War commando operation by 2nd/2nd Independent Company in East Timor

Explorers reviewed

Explorers

book review on Explorers; the Royal Geographical Society’s introduction to the adventurers who first opened the door on remote places, with links to the RGS, Palin and Fiennes home pages

Fever reviewed

Fever book

Tweet Fever. How malaria has ruled humankind for 500,000 years. Sonia Shah. Allen & Unwin. Australia 2010. ISBN 978 1 74237 048 4 If you want to read a book on malaria critically, there can’t be a better way than at bedtime sweating under the protection of a mosquito net. I was overseas, germ hunting again [...]

The whole gnome

Courtesy D Ussery, Biocentrum.

Draft genomes for 15 bacteria from the genus Burkholderia, and the legend of the micrognome

Worth fighting for?

Cannon

Apart from the memorials, the quiet fields of Western Pennsylvania bear little evidence of the monumental struggle that swept over this landscape from 1st to 3rd July, 1863. The battle of Gettysburg was a key turning point in the American Civil War, and came to be recognised as the high point of the Confederate army’s fortunes.