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!
Christopher Joye on The Australian‘s War on Everything: and sundry other stuff
The Australian has been indulging itself in a spot of end of year defensive triumphalism, filling almost an entire page of its paper edition with quotes from Bernard Keane and Laura Tingle apparently proving that “Dennis Shanahan was right!” or [...]
Quick Link: update on class-sizes data
Just in time for school holidays! Following on from this recent discussion about effective spending investment in education, the CEO of the Australian College of Educators, Margaret Clark, has published a dissection of recent claims: http://www.apo.org.au/commentary/jensens-class-size-claims-need-be-unpacked Policy boffins, and those [...]
A decade in time series
We’re going to get all manner of “decade in review” articles over the next few days. Most of them will try to pick out key moments or incidents; however, such focus on the sudden and spectacular misses the slower, but [...]
Saturday Salon
An open thread, where at your weekend leisure, you can discuss anything you like.
Quick link: Ken Parish on the MSM, blogs and character assassination
Ken Parish has written a great post on the ridiculous response of the media to the extremely distasteful comments from the likes of Andrew Bolt on the Christmas Island tragedy. Bob Brown has written a pithy letter to Andrew Bolt’s [...]
Climate clippings 7
These posts include a brief mention of a number of news items relating to climate change. They don’t preclude treating any of these topics at more length in a separate post. They can also serve as an open thread so [...]
Quantifying the negative feedback of vegetation
On another thread, John Michelmore has been telling us about an article by Lahouari Bounoua et al (behind the paywall) which finds that the enhanced effect of CO2 on plant growth provides a cooling feedback, so that doubling current CO2 [...]
On philosophies of giving
It’s that time of year again. A time when we commemorate the birth of Jesus Christ, embark on a consumerist frenzy, get together with family and friends, set out milk and cookies for the patron saint of Coca-Cola, or at [...]
Wednesday Whimsy
This week’s whimsy is brought to you by a proposed method for Stopping A Geek In Their Tracks (assuming said geek is in some way obstructing your Important Task). Is this method foolproof, do you think?
Boat people tragedy
According to ABC News online, dozens are feared dead: Dozens of asylum seekers are feared dead after their boat smashed into rocks and broke apart in rough conditions off Christmas Island this morning. Customs crews and locals are frantically trying [...]
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