THE clothes we wear tell something about us including our likely prejudices. Clothes no doubt also enable others with similar likes and dislikes to find us. A regular visitor to this blog sent in this cartoon of Keith in costume for the … [Read more...] about Defining the Greens (Part 12)
American Activists Target Australian Fishers
A VERY large American philanthropic organisation based in Philadelphia, PEW, has a few projects on at the moment. In Washington DC it’s renovating and refurbishing a building in what it describes as “the heart of the nation’s capital”. According to … [Read more...] about American Activists Target Australian Fishers
Climate Sceptic to Run Climate Research?
President Nicolas Sarkozy's desire to appoint an outspoken climate-change sceptic to a new French super-ministry of industry and innovation has drawn strong protests from party colleagues and environmentalists... Putting him in charge of scientific … [Read more...] about Climate Sceptic to Run Climate Research?
Relative Humidity has been Falling
Correlation is not causation. But it is always exciting to see a good correlation between two variables that one assumes will correlate because of some theory or other. According to the ‘Saturated Greenhouse Effect’, a controversial theory … [Read more...] about Relative Humidity has been Falling
Demonstrating Support for Seal Harvest
Canada's governor-general Michaelle Jean has sparked anger from animal rights groups by gutting a seal carcass and eating a piece of its heart. Read more here. … [Read more...] about Demonstrating Support for Seal Harvest
Reconnecting with the Coorong
I first learnt about The Coorong – a narrow lagoon that runs parallel with coastal dunes for 140km in southern Australia – when I saw the 1976 film ‘Storm Boy’, the story of a boy and a Pelican. The impression I got from the film, and then … [Read more...] about Reconnecting with the Coorong
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD is a critical thinker with expertise in the scientific method.
