Fixing broken things

A fantastic article in the Guardian about an underground “cultural guerilla” movement known as the Untergunther. Their purpose is to restore France’s cultural heritage and they have made the news with a fantastic job of restoring a clock that had been left in neglect. And not just any clock but one in the Panthéon [...]

Blog title change..

This might be a good idea or a bad idea or maybe something in between however an idea I have no influence over is the idea of Adelaide being a “City of Churches”. Maybe, possibly, perhaps this implies a city full of Christians and I’m sure there are lots out there. (BTW, we know who [...]

Atheist comics

It’s not often you come across them which makes it nicer when you do. Cectic – The Comic is a new one I came across the other day.

Federal Science Policy?

Thought I would review this topic after a few weeks of the most boring election campaign in history.
Findings: Zilch, nil, nada, nothing.

Nothing new from Labor either, not a single press release about science in the last two months. This is really sad. Lucky country now, dumb country soon.

Computers for all students?

As a parent with two kids at school I get to see first hand how education happens in this country. I’ll say “happens” and not “works” because I really don’t think it works very well.
As such, even in my near driven to insanity boredom of Election 2007 the rapid wafting sounds of hot air rising [...]

Misleading media titles

I realise the media need to generate sales but exactly how far should they go in putting erroneous ideas into peoples heads? Today we have “Australian power stations ‘worst greenhouse culprits’” from the ABC.
We also have the same old misleading rant “..ranks Australia as the world’s worst greenhouse gas emitter on a per capita basis. [...]

Bindeez cracked by Aussie doctors

A nice article appeared the Daily Telegraph explained how the poisoning issue was discovered.  It’s good to see science at work and nice to know that solving a tricky medical mystery has prevented many other kids ending up sick. As a side issue how many practitioners of the pseudo-sciences could have done what these doctors [...]

Dodgy Cancer Cures

Today’s local Advertiser newspaper has an article regarding dodgy cancer cures.
Regardless of what camp health care claims to hail from, western or otherwise, evidence based criteria should be the only acceptable method of determining a health products efficacy. For decades the skeptical movement has been fighting against quackery in the alternative health care [...]

The Golden Compass

It would appear that the catholic church in the USA is getting it’s knickers in a twist over a movie soon out called “The Golden Compass“. It is based on the first book of a trilogy called “His Dark Materials” by the English author Philip Pullman. Philip has been described as the most dangerous author [...]

Bindeez and factual reporting…

Most people would have heard about the toy beads called Bindeez made by Moose which have been placed on hold pending an investigation into a suspected poisoning. I was lucky to here about this soon after the story broke when searching Google for Bindeez and GHB yeilded only 7 hits. 24 hours later and the [...]