Wednesday, September 07, 2011

At home with At Home

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I didn't have high hopes for At Home with Julia, the short run sitcom based on an "re-imagining" of the life of our Prime Mini...

The psychedelic mouse

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Did the use of psychedelics lead to a computer revolution? Well, there are many things I didn't know in this Comment is Free article fro...

The neighbourhood might be dangerous

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Our galaxy might hold thousands of ticking 'time bombs' A couple of astrophysicists have come up with an idea as to another mechan...

Harry on carbon pricing

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Australian Carbon Pricing - Harry Clarke Economist Harry Clarke went to a meeting recently that was looking at carbon pricing, and made man...

Very reasonable

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RealClimate: Resignations, retractions and the process of science Gavin Schmidt's commentary on the recent controversy over a Roy Spence...
Tuesday, September 06, 2011

Who's writing them?

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NASA Hopes Hard Sci-Fi Will Inspire Future Space Force Roman might approve of a forthcoming line of science fiction books from NASA and Tor-...

Revkin talks extremes

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Extreme Weather in a Warming World - NYTimes.com Andrew Revkin is pretty cautious on the attribution question of extreme weather events and ...

More artificial reproductive stupidity

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One Sperm Donor, 150 Sons and Daughters - NYTimes.com Yes, one sperm donor in the States had been the father of 150 kids, and apparently the...

Sleep your way to evolutionary success

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Researchers seem to have a lot of interest in the sex lives of early humans.  Hot on the heals of the story last week that sleeping with Nea...

The right thing to do….

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So that's where it goes

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Extreme Flooding In 2010-2011 Lowers Global Sea Level I find this surprising: it appears that the down bumps on the road to rising sea leve...
Monday, September 05, 2011

Later...

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Yes, Father's Day was nice, thanks. I've found the app called Comics for the iPad, which will let me prepare my talentless "...
Saturday, September 03, 2011

Odd film alert

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A Dangerous Method: 'And out of the spanking comes psychoanalysis' - video | Film | guardian.co.uk My more regulars readers will ...
Friday, September 02, 2011

Born into the job

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Sex hormones impact career choices This interesting study looked at job preferences of females with a congenital condition (CAH) that se...

Political punditry

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Amongst all the cries of "this is the end of Julia Gillard" and general despair and gnashing of teeth that the "Malaysia solu...
Thursday, September 01, 2011

And Bee, for one, welcomes our new AI overlords

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Backreaction: Will AI cause the extinction of humans? Physicist Bee muses a bit about whether we should be scared of AI more intelligent...

Rust in space

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What would happen to the International Space Station if the astronauts were to leave? - Slate Magazine According to this article, if NA...

Productivity talk

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There's been a lot of talk of a productivity crisis in Australia lately.  We aren't getting more productive any more, so it seems. ...

Can someone give the Prime Minister a hug?

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Well, the newspapers are full of condemnation of the Gillard government for having tried a novel approach to the refugee issue and getting i...
Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Big progress

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Japan's life expectancy 'down to equality and public health measures' The Guardian I didn't realise that the Japanese a...