Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Slow news day

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Some days, the morning scan of the internet just doesn't bring up anything all that obviously blogworthy. So, just a bit of conservati...
Monday, May 30, 2016

Prediction vindicated

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I made a very specific prediction in September 2014 about Helen Dale's future as a high profile staffer for Senator Leyonhjelm: Upda...

In maths news

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Two-hundred-terabyte maths proof is largest ever : Nature News Well, I didn't know this: Computer-assisted proofs too large to be di...
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Out of sight, out of mind

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The Philippines has 1.8 million abandoned children. Here's what keeps many from adoption - LA Times It seems to me that the matter of e...

Weekend stuff

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*  I reckon Jamelle Bouie at Slate is spot on about Trump: All of this raises a question: If the media didn’t make Trump popular—if it’s...
Friday, May 27, 2016

The remote community problem

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Just to further confound matters regarding the sad state of aboriginal affairs (particularly regarding Aurukun, which seems to have been on ...
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Thursday, May 26, 2016

Local custom enforced

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Swiss region: Muslim boys must shake female teachers' hands - The Jakarta Post Can't say I am feeling any sympathy for the Muslims...
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A very sarcastic piece on Thiel

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How Can We Make You Happy Today, Peter Thiel? | WIRED

Buried within the story - the part the Republicans won't want to talk about

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Hillary Clinton Is Criticized for Private Emails in State Dept. Review - The New York Times : The report found that while dozens of State De...

So I'm more Marxist than I knew?

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I don't always find Yanis Varoufakis that good in interviews:  I sometimes find his economic advice a bit hard to follow. But here in ...

Every time you think we've reached "Peak Guardian", it turns out wrong

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Look, I'm a bit reluctant to give this publicity, but the reason the article is a new "peak Guardian" is not so much that it a...
Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Quantum saves free will - again?

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New Age-ish books on quantum physics in the 70's and 80's, as well as the quantum mind theory of Penrose and Hameroff,* seemed to pr...
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Will it last?

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As more states legalize marijuana, adolescents' problems with pot decline: Fewer adolescents also report using marijuana -- ScienceDaily...
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Oooooh

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Spielberg to speak at 365th Commencement | Harvard Gazette I'll be looking out for the Youtube of that... Update:   and to further b...

Sex and the law

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I take it from this article that , with reform of Queensland laws, the effective age of consent in all Australian states will be 16, regardl...

We all love reading about ancient toilets, no?

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From an interesting feature article at Nature News , about ancient toilets:
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Asteroid uncertainty?

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How Big Are Those Killer Asteroids? A Critic Says NASA Doesn’t Know. - The New York Times
Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Can you imagine the Gamergate guys' reaction to this?

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It's Bond, Jane Bond: Gillian Anderson throws hat into the ring to be next 007 | Film | The Guardian

Stop paying attention

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My feeling is that there are way too many words being written about Donald Trump.  He's a joke who was helped to get where he is with ...

Not very encouraging

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Chinese banks sitting on $1.7 trillion debt time bomb - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) At least, I suppose, in China you ge...