Lesser honeyguide, Indicator minor, visitsSeems like spring has sprung with all the bird activity of the last week or so. Managed to […] 19th August 2023 in Birds and bird photography / The natural world tagged birds / South Africa by Derek Keats
With Chat GPT, how wrong can you be?For those of you making use of Chat GPT, please bear in mind that you cannot rely on […] 15th August 2023 in Critical thinking tagged ai / artificial intelligence / chatgpt / generative ai by Derek Keats
Hermannia glanduligera, sticky-bell-flowerHermannia glanduligera, known as ‘the sticky-bell-flower’ is flowering around the Hoedspruit area at the moment, in early winter […] 3rd June 2023 in The natural world tagged flora / malvaceae by Derek Keats
Junonia natalica natalica – the brown pansy, or brown commodoreIn the last post I showed the dark blue pansy, Junonia oenone oenone. Here I am showing another Junonia […] 20th May 2023 in The natural world tagged butterfly / Lepidoptera / nature by Derek Keats
Dark Blue Pansy – Junonia oenoneThis is a dark blue pansy, Junonia oenone oenone, at Hoedspruit, Limpopo, South Africa yesterday afternoon. I have […] 14th May 2023 in The natural world tagged butterfly / Lepidoptera by Derek Keats
Sarangesa motozi – the forest elfinMy last attempt at finding Sarangesa motozi turned out to be Abantis pillaana (ragged skipper) . This is […] 6th May 2023 in The natural world tagged butterflies / butterfly / Lepidoptera by Derek Keats
Abantis pillaana – the ragged skipperA couple of days ago I found a ragged skipper (Abantis pillaana, formerly Caprona pillaana and still listed […] 3rd May 2023 in The natural world tagged butterflies / butterfly / Lepidoptera by Derek Keats
The moth Lhommeia subapicataI recently got myself a Canon RF 100mm macro lens and an adapter to fit my old ring […] 2nd May 2023 in The natural world tagged Lepidoptera / Moth by Derek Keats
The owl moth and the owlThis is a cream-striped owl ooth (Cyligramma latona) at Raptors View Wildlife Estate, Limpopo, South Africa. The larvae […] 30th April 2023 in The natural world tagged Lepidoptera / Moth by Derek Keats
My godless 10 commandmentsf I wrote the 10 commandments, they would be something like this, without any of that god, jealousy […] 18th May 2022 in Atheism and religion / Critical thinking by Derek Keats
Can we give up our cherished irrationality to save our ...Belief in god(s), organised religion, belief in the hazards of 5G, belief that Covid-19 is a hoax, belief […] 21st February 2021 in Uncategorised by Derek Keats
We are not helpless, we are just useless (COVID-19)The image below shows the COVID-19 stats for Thailand. This is what it means to have a responsible […] 28th July 2020 in Uncategorised by Derek Keats
Expressions of fear, uncertainty and doubt in the COVID-19 crisisI have not written anything for this site for a long time, but today I feel I have […] 16th May 2020 in Critical thinking tagged COVID-19 / lockdown / precautionary principle by Derek Keats
Thirty years today Mandela was released – a challenge for ...Thirty years ago today, we were having a braai at the house of the then Chief Justice of […] 11th February 2020 in Uncategorised by Derek Keats
The need to add innovation and humanities to STEMEveryone is talking about STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) these days in South Africa. For sure it […] 7th April 2018 in Education by Derek Keats
Just experimenting with H5PH5P is a really cool HTML 5 content creation platform that allows some really complex things to be […] 26th November 2017 in Free and open source software tagged h5p by Derek Keats
We need to improve the user experience of the GNU/Linux ...I love GNU/Linux. I have used GNU/Linux since 1999 and exclusively since 2001. I have used Ubuntu since the […] 6th November 2017 in Free and open source software tagged applications / Linux by Derek Keats
Photographers – buy equipment not softwareThis morning I was playing around in DarkTable, improving my skills at using its awesome capability. I used a […] 21st October 2017 in Free and open source software / Nature photography / Ubuntu tagged FOSS for photographers / photography / photography tips by Derek Keats
How inappropriate to call this planet ‘Earth’ when it is ...Arthur C. Clarke wrote “How inappropriate to call this planet ‘Earth’ when it is quite clearly ‘Ocean’.” I […] 16th July 2017 in Diving, underwater and intertidal / The natural world tagged marine life / oceans by Derek Keats
We are all leaders, responsible for fixing South AfricaSouth Africa is slowly starting to emerge from under a purulent pile of corruption. Corrupt practices go way […] 15th July 2017 in Thought for the day tagged corruption / politics / South Africa by Derek Keats
Why South Africa needs a moon colonisation programmeThe South Africa of today is not the South Africa the liberation struggle founders envisaged. It is not […] 9th July 2017 in Strategy tagged South Africa / vision by Derek Keats