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The following websites give information about some of the ideas referred to in "Behind the Sun"

When we shared the planet with other hominid species, see “Once we were not alone” by Ian Tattersall, Scientific American, January 2000, pp 39-44.Full text is available here.

Lehrer’s hour

Ulysses solar mission

Antigravity Stuff

Helike

Brisbane River festival

Caloundra (Australia)

Vibrating platform to counter loss of bone mass

Area 51

Edwin de Souza - No relevant links yet available

 

“Oh brothers” is from Dante’s Inferno Canto 26, (Circle 8) lines 112-120. The translation varies.

“Ulysses" was written by Tennyson in 1833, published with his Poems in 1842.

“Fear no more the heat of the sun” comes from Shakespeare’s Cymbeline, Act 4, Scene 2. It is actually a dialogue but often presented whole in collections of verses and sonnets. You can read it in context here.

Quipa (quipu) were the coloured knotted strings used by the ancient Peruvians to keep records and convey messages )

Now is the Hour (Po Atarau/Haera Ra) Maori Folk Song

Joni Mitchell

Physics, harmonics and colour

Auslan (Australian sign language)