The Pill and male infertility
This report about an article in the Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, has attracted a bit of attention because of a claim that the oral contraceptive pill was contributing to male infertility: The pill “has for some years had devastating effects [...]
Evan Thornley: "Nothing in his (political) life became him like the leaving it"?
[With apologies to Shakespeare's Macbeth.] It may be that political news abhors a (Christmas/New Year) vacuum, but hasn’t Evan Thornley’s departure from politics at the point when the Victorian ALP caucus was about to elevate him to a Ministry set [...]
On reading (and writing) the acknowledgements page
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/2030886815_ed804cda53.jpg" Image of a PhD dissertation courtesy of raffyd at flickr – reproduced under a creative commons licence. My 2009 began in a very sober mode (if not mood) – today was the deadline for finishing the edit of [...]
Economics and ideology: u r doin it wrong!
This post is a sequel to my previous one on economic faith and doctrines. When reflecting further about the ideological construction of “oppressive state intervention” and some of the comments made on the thread, I kept thinking about the fact [...]
So what happened to Peak Oil?
Earlier this year, the price of energy, particularly oil, was one of the biggest issues in world politics, and particularly American politics (climate change has always been a second-order issue there). The spike in the oil price drew mainstream media [...]
Eyeless in Gaza II
Since the previous thread on the Israeli attacks on Gaza was becoming unwieldy with 425 comments to scroll through, and several commenters requested a new thread, comments are continued on this thread from here. Update: A new post on the [...]
Guest post by Angharad: Ending homelessness – but not with the help of the AMA
Commenter Angharad discusses Kevin Rudd’s homelessness white paper which didn’t get much discussion because of its timing, but deserves some because of the importance of the issue. -MB A few days before Christmas, Kevin Rudd launched a white paper on [...]
Lazy Sunday! (New year's edition)
Since we don’t live by politix alone (I sincerely hope), what did people get up to this weekend? And indeed on New Year’s Eve and since? Join in, share some tales, regulars and lurkers all! Rollerblader by *phenomenologist on deviantART [...]
Saturday Salon
An open thread, where at your weekend leisure, you can discuss anything you like.
2009: New year's resolutions (the sociological edition!)
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/3153159979_d584827f6d.jpg" Happy New Year 2009 image courtesy of zltgfx at flickr – reproduced under a creative commons licence. There are quite a few cultural constants of New Year’s Eve – fireworks (and the illegal ones in my neck of [...]
Economic faith and doctrines
Gary Sauer-Thompson has trained an observant eye on an editorial in the Fin: Yes, the road ahead looks difficult. But this is no time to abandon our faith in the capacity for enterprises and markets free of oppressive state intervention [...]
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