Our lives, like the seasons, tend to be affected by an annual cycle dictated by the revolution of the Earth about the Sun that takes one year. We are inclined to celebrate events on this time scale, events like Christmas, which occurs each year … [Read more...] about Annual Cycles, Best wishes for 2024
The Daintree, it’s been a Tribulation with Jasper – Support a Local with a Book Purchase
It is a privately-owned World Heritage property that receives no financial assistance from government and is dependent on its own cost-recovery capabilities. I’m referring to Daintree Rainforest, formerly Cooper’s Creek Wilderness. Owned and … [Read more...] about The Daintree, it’s been a Tribulation with Jasper – Support a Local with a Book Purchase
Café Latte Coral & The Bump Heads
I was nervous about taking Sky News Australia presenter and the Editor of The Spectator Australia, Rowan Dean, to John Brewer Reef. Would we really be able to find the famous coral – the badly bleached coral that had featured in The Guardian as … [Read more...] about Café Latte Coral & The Bump Heads
Removing Colour, for a Sick Story
My Aunty Bunty used to work in a factory in Dundee, in Scotland, with thousands of other women all adding colour to black and white photographs. She was allowed to be creative; the idea was to make people happy. So, for example, she could add … [Read more...] about Removing Colour, for a Sick Story
Political and Natural Hazards, ARC Part 3
Before the advent of computer simulation modelling and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the past record of climate change was assembled from a variety of different types of evidence including chronicles, grain price records, … [Read more...] about Political and Natural Hazards, ARC Part 3
In Denial about the Science – Part 2, ARC in London
The Sun did come out for the first morning – Monday morning. The inaugural conference of the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship was in Greenwich just a few miles downriver from Westminster in London. I hadn’t managed to get any sleep Sunday … [Read more...] about In Denial about the Science – Part 2, ARC in London
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD is a critical thinker with expertise in the scientific method.
