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Monday, September 14, 2015

Driverless cars and bad behaviour

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I can't say that I have noticed one potential issue about driverless cars being discussed - how will they stop users doing unsavoury thi...

Just retire, part 3

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Good to hear that even Abbott Ministers are now talking about their inglorious leader getting the boot.  Andrew Bolt doesn't seem to...
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Sunday, September 13, 2015

Help for the aging gut

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Delaying Age Related Diseases by Keeping Gut Bacteria in Balance | Neuroscience News Interesting research here, showing that fiddling with...
Saturday, September 12, 2015

Abbott's Canadian inspiration is on his way out

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Why David Frum Is Wrong About Stephen Harper and Canada's Conservative Party - The Atlantic The tactics of Stephen Harper are not ident...

From this morning's AFR

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Explaining the Abbott pathology, one of his senior colleagues said it is rooted in a biblical belief of good and evil, hence his frustrati...
Friday, September 11, 2015

He writes well

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Stephen Colbert’s Late Show – both a beginning and the end? | Daily Review: film, stage and music reviews, interviews and more Gee.  Guy Ru...

In Australian political nonsense news...

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I see that, apparently, David Leyonhjelm's look-at-me "Nanny State" enquiry  has received most of its submissions on bicycle ...

The fractured Australian Right

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OK, it's not (quite) the same level of disaster as the US political situation, but it appears that there are many unhappy campers in the...

The fractured American Right

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Oh look, George Will not only disses Trump, but finds big hypocrisy in the GOP on the matter of gay marriage and the law: Some, who loudly...
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A very strange ruse

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US politicians face sack for gay sex ruse - BBC News Tea party Republicans Todd Courser and Cindy Gamrat concocted a false story that Mr ...

Japanese floods - worldwide floods

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The remarkable sight of the Japanese floods on television last night was "old news" by this morning, but yet again, I make the po...
Thursday, September 10, 2015

When Americans Loved Taxes

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Interesting short history here about how Americans used to be enthusiastic about taxes (in the form of tariffs).

All connected

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Ocean life triggers ice formation in clouds This would suggest to me further reason to worry about the unknown, global effects of ocean aci...

Seeing things

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Here's part of the latest close up of the bright spot on Ceres: Sure, the centre bit is now looking like an ice volcano, if you as...
Wednesday, September 09, 2015

Cryptosystems and quantum computers

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Online security braces for quantum revolution : Nature News & Comment What a cool word - "cryptosystems" - which gets used r...

Colbert begins

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Well, I'm pleasantly surprised to note that Stephen Colbert's much anticipated Late Show is going to be shown in Australia at 11.30p...

They're taking it well

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Following today's bipartisan statement on Australia taking 12,000 Syrian refugees, a comment appeared in Catallaxy: Now I can not on...

Hard times

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The TLS blog: The death of Louis XIV I recently posted about Louis and invention of modern fashion, and now have spotted a post at TLS tha...

For a proper understanding of drugs policy in Portugal, read this

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I've complained for years that praise for the Portuguese drugs policy has always seemed simplistic and overblown, especially when coming...
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Tuesday, September 08, 2015

Fantastic television

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Tonight's Foreign Correspondent was Tashi and the Monk, and it was extraordinarily good. Touching, humane and beautiful in all senses...
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