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Obeid and Macdonald: corrupt while in control of 5% of global carbon budget
Yesterday, Australia’s independent corruption watchdog found that former Labor party figures Eddie Obeid and Ian Macdonald had acted corruptly. Obeid, a former New South Wales Labor party powerbroker,...
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Dick Smith’s false energy dichotomy
“Just to fill up the plane, 600 dollars a drum. Wow, imagine what happens when that gets to ten bucks a litre. Hoo hoo! I won’t be flying it, I don’t think.” That’s an early moment in Dick Smith’s...
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C.P. Snow’s ‘Two Cultures’
Everyone who’s studied arts or sciences at university will be aware of the gulf between the faculties. Arts students think scientists are arrogant and insular, and scientists think the arts are...
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Hey, Australian Academy of Science: your survey showing Aussies are dumb...
‘More than 40 per cent of Australians do not know how long it takes the Earth to travel around the sun, according to a new survey.’ This was how ABC news opened its story last month on the Australian...
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The fluoridation debate: why we all lose when we pretend it’s just about science
To the delight of almost no one, water fluoridation is in the news again. A fortnight ago, Lismore Council voted to remain part of the (shrinking) 4% minority of New South Wales with no fluoride in its...
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Feynman’s Lectures made available for free online
If a piece of steel or a piece of salt, consisting of atoms one next to the other, can have such interesting properties; if water—which is nothing but these little blobs, mile upon mile of the same...
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Erwin Schrödinger on the value of science
You may ask – you are bound to ask me now: What, then, is in your opinion the value of natural science? I answer: Its scope, aim and value is the same as that of any other branch of human knowledge....
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Dennis Jensen, Tony Abbott and science in the new government
Tony Abbott’s new government has no dedicated science minister – the first time Australia’s been without one since 1931. Instead, some areas of science, including the CSIRO, will become the...
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How to make polyhedral pumpkins for Halloween
Hey maths nerds! It’s Halloween. If you live in Australia like me you have probably never carved a pumpkin before… but I’m going to try and tempt you with instructions for these polyhedral nerd...
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The problems with HuskeeCup – and what they teach us about ethical consumerism
Here in Australia we pride ourselves on our world-class coffee. The only problem is that pang of guilt every time we throw one of those plastic-lined disposable cups into the bin – adding up to about a...
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