Now here is something that you don’t see in the city. See this Google map Got a block of land and looking to build a house on it? Got a mother-in-law living with you and stuck watching the Soaps on Your Telly? Sick of putting the toilet seat down EVERY time you use it? This [...]
Most great industries of our world have a recognised Founding Father or Mother. Electricity would not be as it is without Edison and Tesla. David Buick invented enamel bathtubs before messin’ about with automobile engines. So, who is the founding Father of the dairy industry? Which human genius was first responsible for sticking his head [...]
Recent years have seen an increase in bad press for the Japanese research whaling fleet, and indeed, harrassment of their vessels, from those maritime vandals, Greenpeace. I would like to contribute a more balanced argument in their defence. Japan has always insisted that their whaling operations are strictly for scientific purposes, and yet there are [...]
Check out Potholer54’s latest contribution on Climate change. For those of you who don’t know him, Potholer54 is a scientist who deals with the deniers of Global Warming and chasing down the wacky contributions from bloggers armed mainly with the resources of FOX News. As you watch this clip you will see real scientists qualified [...]
Today we saw an interesting contribution from David Buckingham an ex-head of the Minerals Council in the mid 90’s as he stepped in to provide a little sanity in the tax on extraordinary profits debate. He has effectively destroyed some of the more ludicrous comments especially the efforts by Tony Sage with his claim it [...]
As the years creep by I find myself more sympathetic towards the problems of aging. As one of my sisters once said “I don’t feel like I’m getting older but bits keep breaking down.” I couldn’t put it better myself. As your hearing deteriorates you have to make a bigger effort to keep up. A [...]
Bad timing guys. This morning AM ran a story on safety concerns at Australia’s only nuclear facility at Lucas Heights. It involved dropping of a vial that exposed one of their workers to a very high dose of radiation. A dose so high their instruments couldn’t measure it. This is worrying in itself on a [...]
The new tax on abnormally high profits in the resources industry has, as expected, bought out some hysterical reactions from within the industry and predictably had folk jumping on the bandwagon as a knee jerk reaction. Considering the tax is only meant for times of extraordinary profit levels and that it was suggested by folk [...]
Early days yet, and there is a long way between the laboratory and out in the sunshine, but this experiment gives some hope to the rain making industry. An industry that most Aussies would like to succeed. In the lab the first testing results were promising but the air temperature was set at a low [...]
This last week has seen some interesting commentary about weather the current Pope can be put on trial for covering up child abuse when he was Cardinal Ratzinger as late as November 2002. This report from St Oswald Foundation is one of the better ones for covering the options. It’s an interesting question that has [...]