Thursday, January 16, 2014

Another fake crisis considered

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Economists dispute audit commission's federal government growth claims This time on the size of government.  Some of these figures are...
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Already prepared for next Halloween

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Found here.   And no, I would not wear speedos with it. 
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Physics worth doing

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Backreaction: Why quantize gravity? Poor Bee Hossenfelder isn't having much luck in finding funding for her field of quantum gravity, ...

Fake crisis already averted

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Australia ranked one of the three best countries to do business in Interesting to note that it was a conservative think tank claiming this...

Missing heat in some detail

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Climate change: The case of the missing heat : Nature News Here's a pretty lengthy and interesting discussion on the "missing hea...

A Quiggin post where Spielberg gets a mention

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John Quiggin - The Repubs won’t Douthat (crosspost from Crooked Timber) This Quiggin post is of interest because he again notes the moveme...

More from the "only in America" files

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*  12 year old boy carries sawn off shot gun to school and shoots two students.   Yeah, Heinlein, an armed society is a polite society, is i...

Evil Twins

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BBC News - Twin DNA test: Why identical criminals may no longer be safe I didn't realise there have been a number of cases around the ...

Evil president sounds pretty normal to me

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What Happens When the President Sits Down Next to You at a Cafe - Robinson Meyer - The Atlantic Nothing special about this report about wh...

Surprising coral

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Coral reefs in Palau surprisingly resistant to naturally acidified waters Scientists have found corals in one place with surprisingly high...

Fun research

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Reflections in the eye contain identifiable faces Has this already been used in a crime or science fiction show?   I feel pretty sure it h...

Scientific explanation for beer goggles

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New study shows alcohol impacts vision by 30 per cent
Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Proof that Second Amendment nutters are vindictive nutters

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Target: Me - Dick Metcalf - POLITICO Magazine Read what happens when a gun loving, life long, career shooter and journalist makes a legal ...

It's a miracle...sorta

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Miracle fruit brings a change in taste › Dr Karl's Great Moments In Science (ABC Science) While in Canberra on holiday we went to Ques...

Just get Bolt on board and be done with

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Ha!  The intellectual, um, bogan-isation? of the Catallaxy blog is nearly complete, with "come back and fight, you Lefties, there's...
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Libertarians think a society where this can happen is a good idea

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Man shot dead at movies after texting | World news | theguardian.com A retired Florida policeman has been charged with murder after alleg...
Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Who knows until they are visited

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BBC News - Few asteroids are worth mining, suggests Harvard study There's an enormous amount of uncertainty, it seems, as to the numbe...

Some startling figures

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Quark Soup by David Appell: Climate Change: The Next 10,000 Years David Appell has been reading up on how long human induced climate chang...

Bad news for gym owners

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Do fast workouts really work? The article is light on detail, but it does seem that the idea of short, sharp workouts being as good as lon...
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Monday, January 13, 2014

Guardian goodness

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Two good columns in the Guardian recently: *  Greg Jericho on the pitfalls of privatisation (why is it he sounds so much more convincing ...
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