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Friday, December 01, 2006

Silly hats and academia in Japan

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An interesting article from the Japan Times about Japan and overfishing. It starts off talking about a famous TV fish expert: In September...
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Kim must be very annoyed

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I reckon the thing annoying Kim Beazley most about the leadership challenge would be that did all that dieting and workouts in the gym for ...
Thursday, November 30, 2006

Teachers and The Age

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It's a match made in heaven, lefty teachers and The Age. Big union rallies are being held today, to what end I don't know. It'...
Wednesday, November 29, 2006

The lonely job of being anti-Dunlop

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I still don't get why Tim Dunlop, now blogging courtesy of News Limited , is not attracting much negative attention from the Right. JF B...
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Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Latest Slate Hitchens

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From Hitchen's latest column in Slate comes this key paragraph: The objectionable thing about the proposed Baker-Hamilton "talks...

The crisis in Hollywood

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A long article in The Independent (found via Pajamas Media) talks about the current decline of Hollywood. There is nothing to disagree wit...

A secret harvesting of eggs ?

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This article about how medical research may be getting eggs for use in stem cell research is interesting. It would seem that supporters of...

Hard to imagine

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This must be "male contraception week" in the British media. Following my recent post on vasectomy, T he Guardian discusses s ome...
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Women in Afghanistan

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The Guardian has a fairly long article about the continuing plight of women in Afghanistan. Although it opens as if its sole point is to c...
Monday, November 27, 2006

An unappealing concept

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Apropos of nothing, I just stumbled across a (literally) "high concept" business on the Internet: A unique event meant for anyon...
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The pain that only men can feel

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For those male readers contemplating having a vasectomy, The Times has an article on the uncomfortable issue of long lasting pain. The sol...
Sunday, November 26, 2006

Red, white and blue butterfly

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I spotted this particularly attractive butterfly in the yard today and took this pic. (The butterfly itself is exactly how the camera caugh...
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Saturday, November 25, 2006

From the annals of useless commentary...

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Alan Ramsay in the SMH today: Our Prime Minister lately is behaving and sounding very much like the Paul Keating of old in the ebullience o...
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Friday, November 24, 2006

When in doubt, parachute in the historians

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From the International Herald Tribune : Last week, Kofi Annan gave the Middle East a history assignment. Speaking in Istanbul, the UN secret...
Thursday, November 23, 2006

Dawkins' declaration of war

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Richard Dawkins 's book "The God Delusion" and his vigorous campaign to get other atheistic scientists to actively repudiate a...
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An outbreak of common sense at The Guardian? (And I get to talk about airships)

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If the figures in this article in the Guardian are correct, it really does make all the European panic about flying and greenhouse gases so...
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Wednesday, November 22, 2006

An interesting snippet

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From the PM's commission's report on the feasibility of nuclear power in Australia: Compared with other non-combustion technologies...
Tuesday, November 21, 2006

If it's good for the goose ...

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If these Imams had read my earlier post here , they would know that demonstrative praying on airplanes is just not a way to make your fell...

Hitchens on Baker

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Hitchen's latest article in Slate hits out at the rise of James Baker and "realism" as the possible solution to the Iraq prob...

Breathe deeply

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Just an interesting short article in New Scientist : Alzheimer's disease has a range of disparate risk factors, but researchers may now ...
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