Archive for May 10th, 2008
We Live in an Electric Universe (Part 1) by Louis Hissink
Posted by jennifer, May 10th, 2008 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Climate & Climate Change
Comments: 124
One of the basic working rules in empirical science is the Donald Duck Factor, that when something novel looks, waddles and sounds like a duck, then in all probability it might also be a duck, or at least of the same species. And when a similar structure or shape is found in two disparate [...]
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Why the Propaganda Campaign for International Intervention in Burma? by Peter Symonds
Posted by jennifer, May 10th, 2008 - under Uncategorized.
Comments: 35
The catastrophe wrought by Cyclone Nargis on the Burmese people has provoked an extraordinary campaign by the US and allied powers, and in the international media, demanding that the military junta open its borders to aid and aid officials as well as to American military aircraft, troops and warships. Once again an attempt is being [...]
New Website on the Tasmanian Pulp Mill: A Note from Alan Ashbarry
Posted by Alan Ashbarry, May 10th, 2008 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Forestry
Comments: 10
Last year the Tasmanian Parliament and the Australian Government approved the pulp mill for the Tamar Valley.
They did so after the developer, Gunns Limited, published an Integrated Impact Statement comprising 7,500 pages of social, environmental and economic analysis representing a planning investment of more than $11 million and in excess of 350,000 hours of research, [...]

