The truth and Johann Hari
"Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with saying" philosopher Richard Rorty once said. Earlier this week journalist Johann Hari discovered he'd made...
Legislating for two jokers and a cocker spaniel
Tonight's 7:30 Report featured a story on gay marriage (yes, I know the "report" bit has been deleted, presumably to signal the new post-Red Kezza...
Troppo helps raise over $30,000 for Africa!
I'm thrilled to say that we raised over $30,000 for Africa. Troppo itself initially raised a little over $2,000 to which would have been matched...
Inequality => Despair => Social and economic misery
I love finding links between equity and efficiency - there are lots around. Here's another . . . . (it seems). Early Non-marital Childbearing and...
Time to buy a new smartphone
My first smartphone was an Apple iPhone. I'm rather proud of being a technology laggard - it's nice to have others at the bleeding edge....
Missing Link Friday – Metablogging
"I arrived with fellow baboon researcher Monica yesterday night, after a fairly smooth trip starting in St. Louis and passing through Atlanta and Johannesburg." That's...
Antinomies
Antinomies are discomforting things. If you haven't run into them before, they were a topic of debate and discussion introduced into modern philosophy by Kant...