Friday, January 16, 2015

The secret life of vegans

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I didn't go looking for this story, honest.  (I was in fact reading about The Box Trolls' Oscar nomination, and the Laika studio is ...

Bee on being simulated

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Backreaction: Do we live in a computer simulation? Good post by the best active physics blogger that I know... Update :  I'm sure th...

No news deemed blogworthy

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Thursday, January 15, 2015

Heh...

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Bitcoin revealed: a Ponzi scheme for redistributing wealth from one libertarian to another - The Washington Post

One month - shortest policy lifetime we've seen outside of an election?

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So the government has given up on the bulk billing attack after all.  It must have been 9th (or 8th?) December that it was announced by A...
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Perhaps I should switch my health inadequacies to obesity...

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Lack of exercise responsible for twice as many deaths as obesity
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More battery news

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The Train of the Future Might Be Battery-Powered - CityLab I'm surprised I had not heard of this before: This week, the U.K. has bee...

Sick videos on the rise

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I was somewhat amused to see at JB Hi Fi the other day a display stand of new DVDs (one containing the kid's movie The Box Trolls, actua...

Makes some sense, I guess...

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The math of one-night stands and long-term relationships

Maybe another round of climate change and economics commentary due on the 'net

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I see that an article appeared at Nature Climate Change on Monday with this abstract: Integrated assessment models compare the costs of g...

Medicare backlash took a while

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It seemed to take an inordinate amount of time for the backlash against the government's attack on bulk billing to get into gear, didn&#...
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Wednesday, January 14, 2015

The tough French

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Charlie Hebdo: No one in Europe is tougher on terror than France. That didn't stop the attacks. Interesting article here on how France ...

Lost heads in history

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I've stumbled across a couple of reviews of a book that came out last year:  Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found by France...

Sensitive, aren't we?

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Could climate change have played a role in the AirAsia crash? This is not a bad article that deals with turbulence, aircraft and climate ch...

Big batteries, big future?

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Although it essentially reads like an advertisement for one company's industrial batteries for deployment on the grid, it is still inter...
Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Just silly....

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Not long now and the atheists will be joining in too

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Surge of radical Buddhism in South Asia Bodu Bala Sena (BBS, the Buddhist Strength Force ), a nationalist Buddhist group with a notorious...

A good Krugman summary

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Voodoo Time Machine - NYTimes.com A nice list of the way the current Republicans have been wrong, but their ideological devotion prevents t...
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Rising seas remembered?

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Ancient Aboriginal stories preserve history of a rise in sea level

Why it's worth the trouble

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Research affirms sexual reproduction avoids harmful mutations