We had a terrible storm the other week in the Netherlands. Winds of almost 150 kph, leaving one poor unfortunate dead and thousands of trees felled across the country. We weren’t spared the carnage and had a few, quite large trees

We tend to take walking for granted. But bipedalism (walking on two legs) is probably our most important evolutionary development. It’s what enabled us to move to every corner of the globe before there was any other form of transportation. Nowadays,