Some inspiration porn for your Christmas break
Surely the most spectacular and inspiring building of our lifetimes - and some others' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcDmloG3tXU
Old farts (clever old farts) holding up scientific progress: Shock!!
Does Science Advance One Funeral at a Time? by Pierre Azoulay, Christian Fons-Rosen, Joshua S. Graff Zivin Abstract: We study the extent to which eminent...
Political debate as culture wars: A TripAdvisor for the arts
As I've argued elsewhere, most public debates on policy - and I suspect on pretty much everything else - tend to take place as culture...
How bad were the good old days of Hawke/Keating?
Among Australian economists, the reform years of Bob Hawke and Paul Keating (1983-1996) have achieved near mythical status. Their governments have been credited with opening...
Don’t holler for a Marshall (Island) just yet
[caption id="attachment_28231" align="aligncenter" width="676"] From National Geographic[/caption] Julie Bishop is in strife with the left-leaning Twittersphere for making light of the plight of Pacific Islanders,...
The impossible dream of competent NT government
Here for my sins is the text of another letter I have just submitted to the local Northern Territory News: Dear Editor The statement in...
You’d think that people would have had enough of silly design mistakes: or at least of repeating them
Here are a few gripes about really stupid things. I'm back to Android (the new LG built Nexus 5X) and much happier than with my iPhone....