Episode 56: Pumped Up

Each day, millions of gallons of water are pumped up at the Papplewick Pumping Station to be distributed to thousands of homes. Now pumped out with electric pumps, which replaced the still-functioning steam-powered ones, the station stands as a monument to the engineering and architectural abilities of our British ancestors. This is a special...

Apocalypse Now

The Apocalypse Reveals the Enemy and, inevitably, the Warrior Steps forward. It scarcely needs stating but an apocalypse is upon us. apocalypse ORIGIN Old English, via Old French and ecclesiastical Latin from Greek apokalupsis, from apokaluptein ‘uncover, reveal’, from apo- ‘un-’ + kaluptein ‘to cover’.” Yet, every force has its opposite; and so, the...