Weird is the new normal
A climate clipping about how recent extreme weather events may be signs that the climate of North America is moving to a “new normal”.
Grubby Police Work
Fairfax journalist Ben Grubb was briefly arrested by Queensland Police yesterday after writing an article about a security expert who bypassed Facebook’s privacy controls.
A quick reminder: Tony Abbott talks out his arse
Just popping in to remind you all: whenever Tony Abbott says anything about the effects of a carbon tax, it’s most likely wrong. At the bottom of this article is more scaremongering rubbish: Touring the Ford factory at Geelong, Mr [...]
Science Journalism is not the same as Science
What’s that you say? Some of those logic leaps in the infographic look familiar from challenges to scientific research that we frequently see on this very blog? Yes, indeed they do.
Science budget barely maintained
You would think that in building for Australia’s future top priority would be given to resourcing an organisation as effective as the CSIRO.
Our bodies, our iPods
“How does “slutwalking” differ in substance from the hypothetical example of a middle class person of either gender parading around the streets of a notoriously poor and violent inner city suburb displaying their iPod, iPhone, iPad and a wallet obviously stuffed with money?”
Pharmaceutical budget savings
In many ways the Budget was too complex to create a simple narrative. Laura Tingle had an excellent piece illustrating this. In another piece she said that the Budget was actually better than the spin. She was impressed with spending [...]
Spotlight the Spin
Ooh look! A Big Distracting Thing! What are the talking points being trotted out this week?
What happened to our annual Eurovision post?
I have absolutely no idea what Bahnisch thinks is more important right now – please, share your thoughts on what’s happening in Düsseldorf tonight. UPDATE 11:30pm: the Eurovision Song Contest winner for 2011 is Azerbaijan!
Lazy Sunday
Since we don’t live by politics alone (I sincerely hope), what did people get up to this weekend? Join in, share some tales, regulars and lurkers all!
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