Archive for July 29th, 2009
Canberra and Laputa: A Note from William York
Posted by jennifer, July 29th, 2009 - under Humour.
Tags: Philosophy
Comments: 11
HOW did he do it? Dean Jonathon Swift writing Gulliver’s Travels in 1726 made a long range forecast of such incredible accuracy that it would be the envy of any climate modeler. In this forecast you glimpse Kevin Rudd, the ANU, the academies and many practical men who may bring doom and destruction to Australia.
You [...]
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Reducing Emissions Must Ultimately Mean Less Stuff
Posted by jennifer, July 29th, 2009 - under Opinion.
Tags: Carbon Trading
Comments: 49
WESTERN governments are trying to have it both ways: they want to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and they want to stimulate economic growth by us spending more money including on stuff. But this is not realistic.
Either the government impresses on the population that it must be content with less including smaller families, smaller houses [...]
Gurr the Toy Maker: A Note from Larry
Posted by Larry Fields, July 29th, 2009 - under Opinion.
Tags: Plants and Animals
Comments: 32
BEFORE Jane Goodall’s pioneering study of wild chimpanzees, most of us believed that tool-use and especially tool-making were exclusively human activities. Goodall was intrigued when she first observed a chimp poking a stick into a termite mound, waiting a minute, pulling out the stick, and then licking off the termites.
But a Border Collie named Gurr and [...]

