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i’m not lazy, i’m just phase-delayed
This is a great example of a new approach to an old problem: an alarm clock that literally jumps off your bedside table, rolls away and hides, and then goes off again a few minutes later, forcing you to get… -
an atheist’s point of view
This first blog entry by Atheist’s Wager contains a very interesting take on religion.
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talk about a life of brotherly love, show me someone who knows how to live it
This blog post is a fantastic comment on something very mysterious: why so many Christians spend so much time ranting and raving about homosexuality and abortion, which are barely mentioned in the Bible, and so little time doing something about… -
these people have 10,000 nuclear weapons
This Newsweek poll (full results here) of Americans contains the following statistics about religion:- 48% of Americans believe that mankind was ‘created in its present form’, with only 13% believing that humans evolved in a…
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teutonic baby polar bear kill frenzy scandal
You may have come across this already: there is currently a heated debate about the fate of a baby polar bear named Knut, currently residing (or being held captive, depending on your perspective and level of insanity) in…
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water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink: the great urban water conservation myth
As anyone who lives in Australia is acutely aware, water is a big issue at the moment – it tends to be when you found a country in a massive desert – and we’re all being
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this monkey’s gone to heaven
A bit out of date now, but in February it emerged that the University of Sydney has agreed to ban stem cell research at a new facility built on land it acquired from a Catholic residential college.According…
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what looks good in the day, at night is another thing
You may have read the bizarre story about Chinese scientists developing radio-controlled pigeons by cracking open their skulls and jamming electrodes into them (horrifying picture here).Related reading led me to this amazing/ridiculous story…
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there’s no exit in any direction
A simplistic but amusing take on science vs faith.And WWGWBD? (via BoingBoing).
(reminds me of this t-shirt too).
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they got Charles Darwin trapped out there on Highway Five
This comic says something pretty succinctly that I have been thinking a lot lately. It’s by the excellent American cartoonist Ted Rall, who is simultaneously black, bitter, perceptive and extremely funny (warning: and at times, rather left-wing, although… -
Come in, my little ones. I’ve got no option but to sell you all for scientific experiments.
Not sure if this is the greatest use of our scientific prowess at a time when hordes of neo-luddites are attacking science as though it were a hollow, not-to-be-trusted cult for atheists and communists. A couple who have… -
the stars are beginning to hide
This is an interesting NY Times article (via Slashdot) about how humans have successfully expanded on their millenia-long project to trash the Earth to now include the trashing of space around the Earth. Apparently we have now reached… -
HIV/AIDS on trial
There is an interesting trial underway at the moment in the South Australian Supreme Court in which a man who was convicted of endangering the lives of three former girlfriends by having sex with them when he knew he was… -
church and state update: Pyne added to health portfolio
Further to this post about the increasing influence of religious groups on the Government, yesterday’s cabinet reshuffle has promoted MP Christopher Pyne to the newly created position of assistant minister for health.
Pyne, like the health…
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signs and portents in the sky
Comet C/2006 P1 (McNaught), captured over our city last night by a friend.When beggars die there are no comets seen;
The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.Seen
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