Let me indulge, purely for entertainment value, in some fan-speculation on what we will see on-screen after the Long Night is over and the final 6 episodes Of Game of Thrones are run in 2019. Let me first talk about the end-game aspects I think the books and the tv-series seem...
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https://vimeo.com/131071052 As an aficionado of DOC, someone sent me this article on young Italian immigration, which I've celebrated before . Anyway enjoy the vid. It makes you feel grateful to live in such a great place.
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George H W Bush (father of George W, who had one less initial and a lot fewer functioning cortical neurons) divided US public opinion with this famous declaration in March 1990: I do not like broccoli and I haven’t liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it...
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Nearly two years I speculated on reasons why there are so few Filipino restaurants in Australia relative to the large number Filipino migrants. A secondary purpose was to discuss the uselessness of preference based explanations - not because they could not be true, but because...
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It is, of course, the season for holiday fun times making worthless definitions. Last week my wife and I were making a rare trip into Namba, a popular entertainment and shopping district in Osaka. We happened to see a restaurant named " Blue Billabong ( Japanese )". It purport...
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From Supersizing supercenters? The impact of Walmart Supercenters on body mass index and obesity, by Charles Courtemanche and Art Carden, Journal of Urban Economics 69 (2011) 165–181 Researchers have linked the rise in obesity to technological progress reducing the opportunity...
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This post is merely two additions to previous posts, neither of which warranted a post on their own. The first relates to this post from September where I talked about the idea of realtime mapping of bus services using GPS data. Better people than I had the same idea and, thro...
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Being in holiday mode, my brain is deeply immersed in trivial thoughts, not least who the Australian selectors could sensibly pick to begin the process of rebuilding a competitive cricket team. However an even more burning question is this: why are there so many cooking progra...
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I guess the coming of Master Chef was 9 parts good and one part bad. Great that people got into cooking, but all that stuff about 'plating up' was a bit much for me. A nicely presented meal is nice of course, but 'plating up'? A tad overblown methinks. Anyway, I just thought I...
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Balmain is not just the city of basket weavers it is also a place to find thinking drinkers and binge thinkers. Put this in your list of favorites. Shaken and Stirred , the brainchild of Parnell McGuinness and Leonie Phillips, is a space for the free exchange of opinions witho...
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A few weeks ago, on the 30th of Sept to be precise, I gave a speech to 'science leaders' in CSIRO. Science leaders are early mid career scientists from around the world whom CSIRO have recruited. As the speech explains, Jim Peacock, the Chief Scientist whom I met when on the I...
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When I was a boy growing up in Sydney - and this is the 60s we're talking about here - I often spent school holidays at my grandmother's house in the western suburbs. Generally speaking, it wasn't much fun. My grandmother never had any money. There was a box on the wall out th...
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This time last year the British media was buzzing with stories about the demise of marmalade . In January, The Grocer reported that sales of marmalade fell by 4.4% in the year to 4 November 2006 . Worse still, most marmalade consumers have their best toast munching years behin...
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If you've ever wanted to make a burger with 100% pure bacon or you need a recipe for caramelized bacon then I've got links for you. Welcome to the baconsphere! "Bacon is totally meat candy," says bacon enthusiast Heather Lauer. Heather blogs at Bacon Unwrapped . See Heather's...
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Forget about strippers, the greatest menace on the campaign trail is food. Birthday cakes, pizza, cheesesteak sandwiches, or pork chops -- they can all stop a campaign dead in its tracks. Remember the unlosable election of 1993? Everything was going well for John Hewson until...
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Sixty percent of a rabbit's meat is in its hind legs. That's why it's so difficult to make one rabbit into a meal for four people. If you need some ideas on how to do it, then Anthony Georgeff's Spiceblog is the place for you. Georgeff's blog has the most amazing food pictures...
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