Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Birth order and consequences

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This very long review of a couple of new books about the history of the Castrato contains a lot of information.  Here are a couple of parag...

The start of an amusing series?

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Beachcomber apparently intends to make this an occasional series - examples of "crazy couplings", being famous people who were wil...

Re-visiting The Shining

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I've no great interest in the Stephen King oeuvre - I've never read his books or watched the mini series based on them.  And as for ...

Tough days for the yakusa

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Are Japan's crime clans going out of business? Tea with a yakuza. - CSMonitor.com Lots of fascinating details in this report, but the ...

Double slits and quantum gravity

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Backreaction: A newly proposed table-top experiment might be able to demonstrate that gravity is quantized This is one of Sabine Hossenfel...
Monday, October 12, 2015

A death noted

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As much as I disliked, and puzzled over the popularity of, Sam de Brito's Fairfax career of over-sharing, I had noticed that he had star...

Uh oh

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More Life, Less Death | MIT Technology Review The article says the UN has revised its population growth projections to 10 billion in 2050,...

Bald paranoia

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Our bald, cat loving, infrasound fearing Senator appears to be right on side with stupid American Right wing paranoia about "gun contro...

The failed Prime Minister was worse than suspected

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Why Glenn Stevens is breathing easier since Tony Abbott got rolled | afr.com It's not as if this piece is written with much objectivity...

More magic water needed

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Facing the rain deadline, in a world over which we have diminishing control I see that Paul Sheehan manages to write about El Nino and the ...
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Sunday, October 11, 2015

Into the detail of the "many worlds"

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Anyone who reads about quantum physics would know that the rather improbable sounding "many worlds" interpretation of it has actua...

The old trolley problem

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The Lifespan of a Thought Experiment: Do We Still Need the Trolley Problem? - The Atlantic A nice article here looking at the history of th...
Friday, October 09, 2015

Testing the medium

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How Harry Houdini and Scientific American Fought the Fake Mediums of the 1920s It's an extract from a book on the topic.   Sounds like ...

Can't last

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These leaked records cast light on how ISIS makes its money - Vox Interesting to note the long term frailty of the ISIS current financial &...

How fathers pass on problems

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Discovery of how environmental memories may be transmitted from a father to his grandchildren It seems it's all in how certain proteins...

Whiteford on tax and transfer

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Who really benefits from Australia's tax and social security system? I've always thought Peter Whiteford sounded very reasonable. ...
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The war and wanton women

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Sexually Active Women Were Quarantined During World War II - The Atlantic Well, no, I hadn't heard about this before.  This bit in par...
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The Cruz response

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It was a bit slow coming, probably because people did not really like to been seen to be dissing the poorly performing Sierra Club guy who c...
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Thursday, October 08, 2015

All a bit incestuous

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Here's Why Samsung's Profits Are Up Nearly 80% Samsung Electronics says its operating profits for the third quarter will hit $6.2...

When the constitution stuffs it up

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Umpqua: Is Jeb Bush right about 'stuff happens'? - CNN.com Somewhat interesting to read about the way the interaction between Stat...