Our own religous fundy politician..

The Australian reports on Labor MP Bidgood.
“I believe there is God’s justice in action in what is going on here.
We haven’t seen the end of it. The ultimate conclusion is like I say,
we look at Bible prophecy, we are going towards a one world bank and a
one world monetary system. And if you believe the [...]

One thing Australia sucks at..

Every morning when I walk into work, I walk up a staircase above a strange looking cone about a meter and half high. Inside are bundles of wire, small windows for sensors and a whole pile of very old looking electronics.  I have stopped and looked at this a few times and read the interesting [...]

People in Melbourne thicker than Sydney :-)

It’s that day of the year again.
So far we have ABC Science with this gem. All I can say is I’m pretty sure if we could find the paper we’d probably discover people from both cities are pretty thick, in comparison to say, Adelaide. Of course the funding generally comes from the [...]

Urban Myth 1: Psychics 0

At the start of the year it is always interesting to see to sort of crappy predictions psychics make for the forthcoming year.  In some cases they predictions are so nebulous it’s a joke, in others there’s a bit of post-hoc editing. Whilst at the end of the year they trot out any vague hits [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

The Pharyngula Mutating Genre Meme

There are a set of questions below that are all of the form, “The best [subgenre] [medium] in [genre] is …”.
Copy the questions, and before answering them, you may modify them in a limited way, carrying out no more than two of these operations:
*You can leave them exactly as is.
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Course on physics- FREE

Ah, the world is good. For those without a strong science background and want to learn more, here is a series of lectures concerning basic physics from the UC Berkeley.