Ian Leslie has released what looks to be a fascinating book about the Beatles and more specifically the relationship between Lennon and McCartney. I thought that I too might as well get in on the act and talk about the Beatles story and why it is so remarkable, mysterious and...
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It's here, the booklet I am sure you have all been waiting for. The one which Gigi Foster and Michael Baker slaved over for 10 months . It is also on Kindle . It is dedicated to all the victims of the Panic, in poor countries and rich countries. They include our children, the...
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Looking at the newspapers you’d think Catholicism is having a hard time with philandering priests and cover-ups of their doings being found out on a weekly basis. In Australia, the royal commission has uncovered a lot of systematically covered-up child abuse in the Catholic Ch...
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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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Just had to put this up here, because it's wonderful: [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZnBNuqqz5g[/embed] These people were waiting for a Green Day concert when Bohemian Rhapsody started playing over the speakers ...
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This is a reworking of an earlier post - but reworked with Chief Innovation Officer of The Australian Centre for Social Innovation (TACSI), Chris Vanstone, there's quite a bit of new content for those who are interested. Cross posted at The Mandarin . There's also the intervie...
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Surely the most spectacular and inspiring building of our lifetimes - and some others' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcDmloG3tXU
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https://youtu.be/4cAHL4LMNlY This observation is hardly a blindingly new insight, but it struck me that the video above is a kind of landmark. Google was the company that was information focused, engineering focused - and pretty good at user experience (UX) and all that stuff...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=hN6HfGUGQBc If you think TroppoLabs is mainly about keeping the Merc Sports and Rooter in basic working order, think again!
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In case anyone's interested, I did an interview on "My Trip" which can be downloaded from this link .
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https://soundcloud.com/zekejmiller/new-recording-68 Read more here .
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Prologue to a blog post: Gentle Troppodillians, as you know, we keep up with the times here at Troppo. Some people like to think just five minutes ahead. Here at Troppo we're focused on the long-term - eons are seconds in TroppoTime - or seconds are eons depending on the way y...
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[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="406"] Emotiv Insight & Google Glass on Emotiv CTO, Dr Geoffrey Mackellar.[/caption]
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Here are some headlines marking various milestones of progress and regress in the Government 2.0 agenda. As we recommended in the Cutler Report donations to the global commons are growing apace. Meanwhile it's not surprising that the Scandinavians, who are some of the most imp...
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[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="460"] Balls around the world[/caption] Like Adam Smith said "In civilized society [man] stands at all times in need of the co-operation and assistance of great multitudes, while his whole life is scarce sufficient to gain the friendship...
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I didn't know this - until my son told me. From this website . Sometimes it is necessary for doctors to get access to the heart either for diagnosis or treatment. The simplest way to do this might seem to be to hack open the chest and have a look at the organ itself. Obviously...
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1uyQZNg2vE
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http://youtu.be/Lzi4o6cXilo Attentive Troppodillians will be aware of the Australian Centre for Social Innovation which I chair. After looking awfully like our 'runway' was coming to an end (as we stay in startup land) our first and still flagship program is growing strongly ....
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http://youtu.be/nuIiqKytvnU I saw a preview tonight. Incredible, fabulous stuff. Go if you can.
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Well everyone in my family and extended family are proud of Angus Gruen, my nephew who left Paris (thus avoiding dinner with his uncle and a burn under the seine in the Troppo Mercedes Sports 350 SE), turned up jetlagged and sick at Monash Uni to participate in the Physics Oly...
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In physics we're used to the idea that at different scales and at different stages of some process, very different things happen. We inhabit Newton's world of medium sized things and speeds - planets, trees, footballs and travel at walking, driving or flying speed - even space...
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