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
Books
Books, I’m Reading (November 2022)
I read most evening; usually from thick books – both fiction and nonfiction. It often depends what Palmira at Annie’s Bookshop (Peregian QLD) recommends. (If you are on the Sunshine Coast that bookshop is so worth visiting and Palmira is always … [Read more...] about Books, I’m Reading (November 2022)
Best wishes, for the New Year
I received the most delightful Christmas present: a poetry book published 7 years ago by Christian Bartholomew Wright. I am not usually big on possessions — but books: I hoard them. A problem is that my whole life I have moved every so many … [Read more...] about Best wishes, for the New Year
Towards a New Theory of Climate with a New Book
AS the editor of the last book, and the next book, in the Institute of Public Affairs’ Climate Change: The Facts series I spend a lot of time pondering the nature of ‘facts’. A fact is something that has become known as true. A fact may be … [Read more...] about Towards a New Theory of Climate with a New Book
Climate Change: The Facts 2017
Today's Weekend Australian includes an article that begins: "Iconic, ailing Australian satirist Clive James has penned a savage essay on climate change alarmism, controversially cooking everyone from Barack Obama to Kevin Rudd to Tim Flannery to … [Read more...] about Climate Change: The Facts 2017
Imminent Catastrophe: a poem by Clive James
The imminent catastrophe goes on Not showing many signs of happening. The ice at the North Pole that should be gone By now, is awkwardly still lingering, And though sometimes the weather is extreme It seems no more so than when we were … [Read more...] about Imminent Catastrophe: a poem by Clive James
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD is a critical thinker with expertise in the scientific method.
