By Mark Bahnisch on February 24, 2010
A number of commenters have drawn attention to a couple of very interesting posts from Possum on other threads about the Peter Garrett/pink batts imbroglio, so I thought it was worth setting up a dedicated thread. In his first post, [...]
Posted in Policy, Politics | Tagged consultancy, fire, incompetence, insulation, Media, Minter Ellison, Peter Garrett, pink batts, possum, risk, statistics |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 17, 2010
Writing in Crikey yesterday, Guy Rundle described the Greek imbroglio as the second wave of the Global Financial Crisis: So let’s try and make it as clear as possible — the second wave of the 2008 GFC has begun, and [...]
Posted in Economics, Europe, Federal Elections, International, Markets, Politics, Sociology | Tagged bernard keane, Coalition, economic policy, Economics, Federal Election 2010, global financial crisis, Greece, Guy Rundle, Immanuel Wallerstein, Kevin Rudd, Labor, political communication, political economy, recession, risk, Sociology, sovereign debt, sovereign risk, Tony Abbott, uncertainty |
By tigtog on September 7, 2009
It’s 16 years since the last genetic identification of Alzheimer’s factors. This is potentially huge, as at least 1 in 4 cases of Alzheimers are known to have a strong genetic component, and it has long been suspected that other gene clusters are very important factors in the development of the disease.
Posted in Language, Life, Medicine | Tagged Alzheimer's Disease, caffeine, dietary supplements, gene therapy, genetics, immunology, language skills, protective factors, risk |
By Robert Merkel on April 30, 2009
The misallocation of attention and resources on rare but spectacular risks, to the detriment of dealing with mundane but far more lethal ones, is something I’ve personally commented on more than once; our skewed psychology of risk is still not [...]
Posted in Developing world, Health, Medicine, Poverty | Tagged Developing world, influenza, risk, spanish flu, swine flu |
By Mark Bahnisch on April 14, 2009
[Via Rob Corr] John Quiggin, with his customary acuity and clarity of thought, has outlined a social democratic agenda post the Global Financial Crisis in a paper [pdf] for the Whitlam Institute. A social democratic response to the crisis must [...]
Posted in Disasters, Economics, International, Markets, Policy, Sociology, USA | Tagged AIG, barack obama, credit markets, credit swap defaults, derivatives, economic policy, equity markets, G20, GFC, global financial crisis, ideology, John Quiggin, Larry Summers, Markets, Michael Perelman, neo-liberalism, Obama administration, Policy, practices, regulation, risk, social democracy, Tim Geithner, US government, Wall Street, Whitlam Institute |
By Robert Merkel on February 5, 2009
Debra Mayrhofer at New Matilda examines the media reporting of a recent death of a cyclist on Sydney’s M7 motorway, and is disturbed by the premise underlying much of it: The segment briefly covered the crash and concluded by pointing [...]
Posted in Media, Sydney | Tagged cycling, cyclists, debra mayrhofa, New Matilda, risk, sterotypes, triathalon |
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