Wednesday, February 06, 2013

Wonders and Marvels missed, until now

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From somewhere or other on the web, I recently found a link to the esoteric history blog Wonders and Marvels , which describes itself as &qu...
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Lapierre explains

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The NRA’s pathetic excuses for opposing universal background checks. - Slate Magazine I didn't realise that NRA's Lapierre used to...
Tuesday, February 05, 2013

Bernard's right

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Media coverage of Gillard election date | Crikey Bernard Keane complains (as did Barrie Cassidy on Insiders on the weekend) that journalis...

A very dubious claim

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Lefty nonsense: When progressives wage war on reason - opinion - 04 February 2013 - New Scientist I haven't heard of the pair who wrot...
Monday, February 04, 2013

A harder rain is gonna fall...

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Increases in extreme rainfall linked to global warming In the most comprehensive review of changes to extreme rainfall ever undertaken, r...

Ross explains

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Why voters believe the economy is in trouble I think Ross Gittins' explanation here of the difference between perceptions and reality ...

Dramatic irony and the pro gun lobbyists

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OK, I'll admit it:  I'm one of those who is aware that people are supposed to use "irony" incorrectly all the time, but ha...

Hope for some of my readers yet...maybe

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The Tablet - Review: The Salvation of Atheists and Catholic Dogmatic Theology There's quite a good summary of the controversy within t...
Sunday, February 03, 2013

Old stories and new ideas

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Time flies, doesn't it?  I see now that it was back in June 2010 that I first mentioned my wife bringing home some Twilight Zone (the o...

The (very) late review of Brave (and animation talk generally)

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The kids and I never got around to seeing Brave at the cinema, but we watched it at home last night on DVD. What a seriously flawed movie ...
Saturday, February 02, 2013

In Utah news

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Well, that's kinda amusing.  When following someone's link to the Salt Lake Tribunal on an unrelated matter, I found that it must be...
Friday, February 01, 2013

A slight improvement for witches

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More curbs on Saudi religious police powers | GulfNews.com Riyadh: Saudi Arabia has set new limitations on the powers of its notorious r...

Looking back at 50's science fiction movies

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Nuclear monster movies: Sci-fi films in the 1950s were terrifying escapism. - Slate Magazine Not a bad review of the themes within the gen...

It was probably carrying kimchi and a Samsung smart phone

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South Korea launches satellite to join global space club : Nature News Blog

Bedrooms and penicillin

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Syphilis and the Sexual Revolution � First Thoughts | A First Things Blog Hadn't heard this theory before: It may have been penicilli...

More about marriage and kids

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Don't mention the M-word - The Drum Opinion (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Jeremy Sammut suspects that academics in Australia a...

Simplified forecasts for global temperature

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Global Temperature Anomaly Forecasts, January 2013 | Climate Abyss | a Chron.com blog Last year, climatologist John Nielson-Gammon came up...
Thursday, January 31, 2013

David Byrne admiration post (again)

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I see that David Byrne was in Australia a couple of weeks ago for a few shows with St Vincent, a nice young woman with whom he did his most ...

So much for self defence and guns

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I haven't looked at the links provided, but I expect this is quite right: IWF's Gayle Trotter testified at today's Senate hea...

As seen on Baden-Powell's bookshelf

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This refers back to a 2004 Christopher Hitchens article on the "mildly Fascist" Baden-Powell.  If I had read it before, I had for...