"After weeks or months in orbit, astronauts experience dramatic but short-lived symptoms. Many describe an overwhelming heaviness, as if their arms and legs are made of lead." Whimsy columnist CLIVE WILLIAMS looks at weightlessness.
Clive Williams
Clive Williams is a Canberra columnist.
"But beyond imagination and storytelling, what does science tell us? Is time travel possible – even in principle," asks Whimsy columnist CLIVE WILLIAMS.
"Could humans live forever? Science says: Not yet, but it’s theoretically possible. There are several directions being actively researched," writes Whimsy columnist CLIVE WILLIAMS.
Following on from his last Whimsy about women’s make-up and heels, columnist CLIVE WILLIAMS looks at men’s grooming and attire.
"Men have arrogantly tended to think that women wear make-up and high heels to try to subvert them into a relationship and marriage. But it’s much more complex than that." CLIVE WILLIAMS tries to make sense of make-up and high heels.
"Modern physics has revealed a surprising truth: time can vary, depending on motion, gravity and the structure of the universe," writes Whimsy columnist CLIVE WILLIAMS.
A neologism is a newly coined word or expression and Whimsy columnist CLIVE WILLIAMS shares some of the latest ingenious ones.
"As another financial year begins, the national conversation should move beyond the assumption that bigger is always better." CLIVE WILLIAMS says the question is not how to make the economy bigger, but how to make Australians better off.
"Michelangelo seemed to recoil from worldly comforts. He ate simple meals, slept in his clothes, and lived with almost ascetic disregard for cleanliness." CLIVE WILLIAMS shares some surprising habits of a towering genius of the Renaissance.
For marathon swimmers, the Strait of Hormuz represents one of open-water sea swimming’s most unusual challenges, writes CLIVE WILLIAMS.
"Through melody and rhyme, America's songwriters have turned defeats into moral victories, soldiers into martyrs, and complex conflicts into simple tales," writes Whimsy columnist CLIVE WILLIAMS.
"When you sift through the sporting world, only two widely recognised disciplines stand out as requiring competitors to move backwards for the entire race: rowing and backstroke swimming," writes Whimsy columnist CLIVE WILLIAMS.
