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!
Climate clippings 35
Australian greenhouse graphs The ABC has a graph of Australia’s greenhouse gases. I’ve extracted the pie chart here: The figures are for 2009-10 and exclude land use, land use change and forestry (LULUCF) which in 2005 was 6%. Lots of [...]
Weekly Whimsy
This week’s whimsy is brought to you by a classic moment from the BBC’s Last Chance To See, featuring baby chimpanzees. Please share any bits and pieces you have come across recently that have surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you.
It’s simple, really
Frustration at the nonsense purveyed on Madonna King’s program inspired me to send her an email, stating the main features of the Clean Energy Future (CEF) package in three simple points. In this post I give an expanded version so [...]
How have your (non political junkie) friends reacted to the CEF?
One of the benefits of Facebook and its lax privacy policies is that you often get to see casual acquaintances, who you don’t normally talk politics with, are reacting to things in the news. The political junkies in my social [...]
The last publicly-educated generation?
If we remain complacent, it is quite likely that children born this year will be the last to enjoy free, secular and universal secondary education in NSW. (OH&S warning: Long and winding post. No overtaking for 2000 words. Snack recommended.) [...]
Quicklink: white collar exploitation
Sara Dowse has written an article based on Ross Perlin’s Intern Nation, a study of the burgeoning practice of internship in the US, although Perlin did his own stint in a London NGO and the practice seems well-established there. The [...]
CIA’s fake vaccination drive to get bin Laden
The Guardian reports that the CIA set up a fake vaccination drive in Abbottabad, Pakistan to obtain DNA samples from individuals in the bin Laden compound. The CIA organised a fake vaccination programme in the town where it believed Osama [...]
Scaring the children
Children are being scared by doomsday climate change scenarios presented in schools, according to an article in The Daily Telegraph. The paper also ran an editorial and there was a story in the Oz last month. Material produced by the [...]
A CEF anomaly: postgraduate scholarship students
While the main thrust of the Clean Energy Future (can we call it the CEF from now on?) package seems reasonable, there was inevitably going to be a case or two that needs clarification. One such case is that of [...]
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