Where are we with Geo-Engineering in 2014?
Geo-engineering is increasingly looking like the only politically viable way of averting temperature rises above 2 degrees in the coming century. This is for three...
Cut the waste! Stop the boondoggles!
[caption id="attachment_26684" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Junction Oval[/caption] Victorian Premier Dennis Napthine announces a “plan” to spend $20 million upgrading Junction Oval at St Kilda to accommodate...
Bankers reject Forrest’s cashless welfare proposal
In a submission to the Forrest Review of Indigenous jobs and training, the Australian Bankers’ Association (ABA) rejects Andrew Forrest's Healthy Welfare Card proposal. The...
The root of all evil? – ABBA’s Björn Ulvaeus argues that getting rid of cash will reduce crime
It may be devoted to 70's nostalgia, but Björn Ulvaeus sees Stockholm's ABBA The Museum as a harbinger of the future. The museum doesn't accept...
Calmly considering ABC cuts
The announcement by Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull that the ABC’s budget will be cut by $50 million per year for the next five years has...
Complexity, reducibility, integrity and bullshit: the general untheory
http://youtu.be/jzG293KCitk I Some readers may recall an earlier post which I christened an 'untheory' of innovation. It argued that there's not much use in 'theories' of...
Refugees: a blast from a not so distant past
SENDING ALIENS TO AUSTRALIA. CANBERRA, Tuesday. In the House of Representatives this afternoon Mr. Martens (Lab., Qld.), said that the Government's acquiescence in Britain's proposal...