OpinionWales This article is more than 2 years old‘Snowdon’ may have its own beauty, but Yr Wyddfa is the name I’ll be usingThis article is more than 2 years oldRhiannon Lucy CosslettLanguage is political, and the English suppression of local placenames should be resisted in Wales, just as in Ireland
It has been well over a year now since I last laid eyes on Yr Wyddfa, the mountain that presided over my childhood, and which the English call Snowdon. Read More...
DatablogAustralia newsThe most detailed map of Australian population density everThe Australian Bureau of Statistics has released what is probably the most detailed geographic view of population density in Australia. The dataset shows the population per square kilometre from the 2011 census, the first time a grid has been used for these figures. This gives a significant increase in detail, particularly in regional areas, over previous approaches.
Here I’ve converted their data to an interactive map so you can see specific areas in greater detail. Read More...
River PhoenixPhenomenally talented and famously caring, River Phoenix’s death shocked the world. His girlfriend Samantha Mathis talks for the first time about that awful night, and the man behind the myth
On the night of 30 October 1993, River Phoenix, his girlfriend, the actor Samantha Mathis, and his siblings Leaf (now known as Joaquin) and Rain, walked into the Viper Room, the LA club owned by Johnny Depp. Mathis thought they were there only to drop off his little brother and sister, “but when we arrived he said to me: ‘Oh, there are some people playing music tonight in the club who want me to play with them – that’s OK, right? Read More...
