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Monday, September 06, 2010

Ancient brews

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Biblical Archaeology Review covers all the important stories, such as the one discussed in detail in this article: " Did the Ancient I...
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Dump and gone

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On Saturday night, I ended up at a Highgate Hill park with hundreds of other people watching the Brisbane Riverfire fireworks display, most ...
Sunday, September 05, 2010

Sydney tiltshrunk

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Well, I was in Sydney recently, and I haven’t played with Tiltshiftmaker.com for a while, so here goes:
Saturday, September 04, 2010

Saturday stuff

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* Richard Glover provides a somewhat refreshing list of good things about the today's Australia. It's good to reflect on such st...
Friday, September 03, 2010

Katz's Ring

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This week's column by Danny Katz , about Melbourne staging Wagner's complete Ring cycle in a few years time, is amusing. I've n...
Thursday, September 02, 2010

Sick oceans news

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The biggest political surprise this week was that Bob Katter, who I took to be a climate change skeptic, came out with this comment on radio...
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Wednesday, September 01, 2010

Thinner by the week

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In the newsagent today, I picked up a Time magazine and noted how very thin it seemed to be. I had noticed this a couple of weeks ago too. ...

Add it to the list of worries

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Not sure that I’ve heard this before : Recent work by UTS researchers shows that future scarcity of the element phosphorus (P) will be ...
Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Sex, murder, mayhem, bees

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All of the cinematography on Life is great, and last Sunday I particularly liked this story of Australian desert bees where life is brutal, ...

Slow on science

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So, Andrew Bolt picks up a story of a potential asteroid threat, but misses that it this was discounted by NASA 8 years ago after closer ob...

Bring on the entrails

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Seems to me that if you're going to say that a WA National who says he could never support a mining tax, but doesn't want to absolut...
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Monday, August 30, 2010

Today’s miscellany

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* It’s looks rather like a cross between George Jetson’s digs and a Bond eco-villain’s lair, but it is in fact a German house that generate...

Biggest Christian country of the future

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The BBC ran a story recently about how the Chinese government (or some subsets of it at least) has decided it quite likes Christianity after...

Knock yourselves out, libertarians

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I can safely predict there will be argument about this amongst the sweary, teenage boy libertarians  over at Catallaxy: TEN years of s...

The numbers game

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It’s quite surprising, isn’t it, that the purpose of Russian “numbers stations” is still not known for sure.  According to Gizmodo , the num...

Hello, readers?

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Well, after a large amount of visitors during the election campaign who came here looking for Julia Gillard's earlobes, the completion o...
Saturday, August 28, 2010

The intersection of physics, philosophy and religion

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Discover magazine has just put online an article from April about quantum experiments that some physicists take as confirming the idea that...

Drug house update

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In May, I posted extracts from Discover magazine about the surprisingly big problem of cleaning up American houses that had been used for i...

Interpretation provided

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I recently noted a new paper on arXiv that had an intriguing title, and Max Tegmark as co-author, but I didn’t really know what it was abou...

Lizards good for something

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A trial is underway at University College London Hospitals in UK to establish whether the drug 'Exenatide' could be used to treat...
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