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Who you gonna call?
You know how young children make bargains in their minds – "If I don't miss this bus I will do my homework for a month", that sort of thing? It's a bit like whistling as you pass the graveyard to keep...
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Life on Mars
My eyes always light up when I see there is a press release from the National Farmers Federation, my fingers itch to hit the keyboard, knowing, for sure, there will be a column in there somewhere for...
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Essentially destructive
And off we go again. Doesn’t seem like five minutes since I was handing out how-to-vote pamphlets in the Boorowa Schoolyard in 2007, not much more than ten minutes since I was doing the same at Gunning...
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Arsenic and old civilisation
The story the other day about NASA finding a bacterium that could (possibly) partly use arsenic in its DNA suggests that if we only look for the essentials of Earth life (carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen,...
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All along the watchtower
The other day I saw the wind farm near Gunning for the first time in a while, and I must say it gladdened my heart a little. There were the great towers shining in the sun with the turbines turning...
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The ragged trousered philanthropist
Because I am a philanthropist, in words if not finances, can I offer a couple of free suggestions to Julia Gillard and the Labor Party. I mean you are doing about as well as Gordon Brown just before...
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Don’t mention the weather
When I woke up this morning, determined to write something quick and angry about extreme weather events, it was to discover, great minds etc, that Bill McKibben had been similarly provoked, and had the...
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Queen Cate
It is a reflex response so strong that it could replace the ringing bell of Pavlov’s dogs in psychology textbooks without losing a fraction of meaning. A celebrity joins a public campaign in favour of...
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Just fauxing
Interesting article (“Martha Raddatz and the Faux Objectivity of Journalists“) by Glenn Greenwald following the Biden-Ryan VP Debate. “The highly questionable assumptions tacitly embedded in the...
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