Thursday, June 08, 2006

A Danny Katz piece

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Subliminal scholarship, schoolboy-style - Danny Katz - Opinion - theage.com.au I have mentioned before how I think Danny Katz is a great hum...

More detail, Ken

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Nuclear electricity is just more expensive - Opinion - theage.com.au Kenneth Davidson in The Age, talking about nuclear power, makes this su...
Wednesday, June 07, 2006

Bugs in Japan

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Japundit � Duck Season . . . Rabbit Season . . . BUG SEASON! See the link above for a short discourse on the rather odd Japanese kids obsess...

Hitchens on Haditha

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Why Haditha isn't My Lai. By Christopher Hitchens Worth reading, as always.

The open letter

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Janet Albrechtsen in today's Australian rips into John Howard for backing down on the sale of the Snowy River scheme. Personally, I do...

Sad story

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The Age has been following the very sad story about a Victorian hospital causing severe brain damage in a baby through a simple mistake. Th...
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Tuesday, June 06, 2006

A whole new world of stupidity

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New Scientist News - Abuse of prescription drugs fuelled by online recipes It seems that abuse of prescription drugs is a big issue in the S...

A reminder of the Saddam regime

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Graves reveal clues to Saddam brutality - World - theage.com.au From the above article: "There are 200 sites registered with the Minist...

On the nature of Islam

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Good old Archbishop George Pell. The Sydney Morning Herald today calls him "the country's most influential catholic", which...
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Monday, June 05, 2006

More on safer nuclear

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Nuclear power | The shape of things to come | Economist.com The article is a short but interesting summary of safer nuclear reactor designs ...

How low can you go?

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Scotland on Sunday - Family entertainment? I have not commented on this year's Big Brother. However, the brainiacs at Larvatus Prodeo o...

Anti spam help

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Jetable.org - Home This sounds like a very good idea: To avoid spam, jetable.org provides you with a temporary email address. As soon as it ...

Pat O'Shane's turn

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Again, the law shoots and misses - Opinion - smh.com.au Paul Sheehan's article is worth reading. Controversial New South Wales magistra...
Sunday, June 04, 2006

Caz rips into romanticised heroin

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A very interesting post over at Avatar Briefs about the arts' infatuation with heroin addiction. The extracts from Dalrymple are also f...

Fennel with parmesan

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Maybe most of the sophisticated epicurean world knows about roast fennel and parmesan, but I only cooked this dish for the first time this w...

On religion in Europe

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I found this article in last Friday's Australian (about how religion and politics in Europe have changed in the last couple of centurie...

Back to Marsden..

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Well, as I guessed , there was a damaging John Marsden allegation to come, and it came via News Limited on the day of his funeral. Question...
Friday, June 02, 2006

Australia started with a very big bang?

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ScienceDaily: Big Bang In Antarctica: Killer Crater Found Under Ice Today's interesting science news is about evidence found for a very ...
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Thursday, June 01, 2006

Digging in on the Moon

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New Scientist SPACE - Breaking News - Can bulldozers save Moonwalkers from solar flares? The short article above talks about how to protect ...

Revisionism on Arctic history

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BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Arctic's tropical past uncovered It seems that there is still a lot of new stuff being discovered about the ...