Lazy Sunday!
Since we don’t live by politix alone (I sincerely hope), what did people get up to this weekend? Join in, share some tales, regulars and lurkers all! *sorry for the delay – Mark’s off doing some living again!
Guest post by Mr Denmore: The Failed Estate II – Gareth's gaffe
Regular LP commenter, Mr Denmore, is contributing a series of posts about shifts in the media and journospheres in the context of this year’s federal election. Mr Denmore has extensive professional experience in the media, and we trust you will [...]
Saturday Salon
An open thread, where at your weekend leisure, you can discuss anything you like.
Synthetic life – er, sortof.
Craig Venter – you might remember him from such scientific headlines as the Human Genome Project – sure knows how to publicize his company’s research findings. ABC Online reports that Venter’s team has created “synthetic life” Scientists in the United [...]
Damned if you do…
Over at Overland, Jeff Sparrow takes a look at the ridiculous controversy surrounding Rima Fakih’s victory in the Miss USA contest: For the last few weeks, we’ve learned, over and over again, why the burqa must be banned. A visible [...]
The non-existent global cooling has become even more non-existent.
That is, if this year’s global average temperatures as measured by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are anything to go by.
Nuclear power in Finland – an update
I haven’t really looked at developments in energy for a while. So it’s high time to look around to see what’s happening. While a number of nuclear power plants are being constructed in China, the direct relevance for Australia’s energy [...]
Rebutting the BER scare campaign
From my point of view, the campaign against the Building the Education Revolution as “wasted spending” by The Australian appears to consist largely of beating up any whinge without any context or fact checking, combined with inappropriate cost comparisons. As [...]
Open Joe Hockey Press Club thread
Today, Joe Hockey is outlining concrete and costed savings at the National Press Club. Or so we were led to believe, in a Budget reply speech from his leader which Peter Martin characterises as a ‘dog ate my homework’ address. [...]
Learning from climate studies of recent millenia
Figure: Spaghetti plot of the new Northern Hemisphere reconstructions over a) 1800 and b) 1000 years along with selected older ones for comparison. There was considerable discussion, not all of it edifying, of global surface temperature reconstructions for the last [...]
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