I have been repeatedly referred to the 'New Farm' website as a source of quality information on organic farming systems. But I can't find any actual data at this site and my request for specific data seems to have just got me receiving their … [Read more...] about Some Real Data on Organics Please
Pain for Litte Gain?
Today's Courier Mail (pg 57) has a piece titled 'Rainfall hits five-year low' explaining how little rain has fallen in Brisbane while noting that the Gold Coast was deluged in June. It goes on to explain that the Gold Coast City Council wants to … [Read more...] about Pain for Litte Gain?
Link to New Orleans
New Orlean's daily newspaper The Times-Picayune is now publishing out of Baton Rouge including onto the internet, see http://www.nola.com/ . This newspaper has a weblog: http://www.nola.com/weblogs/nola/. Senator Andrew Bartlett's blog has a post … [Read more...] about Link to New Orleans
Intelligent Design
E-journal Online Opinion published a piece today titled Evolutionary science isn't a closed book about the pros and cons of teaching Intelligent Design (ID) in schools and universities. I read about the concept of ID in the August 15 issue of Time … [Read more...] about Intelligent Design
Energy for Aquaculture (Part 1)
I have always been interested in the relative efficiencies of different food production sytems. I wrote and posted the piece on fishing last night (Let them eat fish)while trying to come to terms with how much money the Australian government is … [Read more...] about Energy for Aquaculture (Part 1)
Let Them Eat Fish
On 4th July last year the area zoned 'Green', and thus off-limits to commercial and recreational fishers in Great Barrier Reef (GBR) water, was increased from 4.5 per cent to 33.3 per cent of the total GBR area. This was the culmination of a hard … [Read more...] about Let Them Eat Fish
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD is a critical thinker with expertise in the scientific method.
