Conservative rock, Google trends, kabuki glamour ...
A list of 50 greatest conservative rock songs.
About the fun of Google™ trends. Such as which countries most often Google™ bad+sex.
A glamorous young actor seems to be resparking interest in kabuki theatre.
Study fails to find any connection between marihuana and lung cancer.
The 30th anniversary of the Judgement of Paris.
May 25th is Towel Day, as a tribute to Douglas Adams.
Lab-grown meat is getting closer.
Thinning an elk herd is an expensive business-if the government does it.
“Dr Death” is dying and reflecting.
A service which offers to help one deal with cultural barriers to doing business in Japan.
An environmental think-tank makes it clear that poor folk should not try to better themselves, certainly not by migrating. Europe is restricting immigration and asylum access. Some in Mexico think a better border wall may be good for Mexico.
Being informative about sex can apparently reduce teenage pregnancy and STDs. Who would have thought knowledge and understanding is better than ignorance and fear? Via tcpip. The US is doing a lot to combat HIV/AIDS in the developing world.
A positive review of the science of Al Gore’s global warming movie. But it is still an exercise in feel-good simplifying. Suggestions that more CO2 leads to more C02 in positive feedback effect. Via tcpip. (Though CO2 in the atmosphere has been at much higher concentrations than it currently is, which suggests there may be countervailing effects.)
More folk in NSW have avowedly racist views (1 in 7) than in Queensland (1 in 10). Via p_cat. Which means 6 out of 7 and 9 out of 10 don’t. Could folk please stop going on and on about ‘racist Australia’ now thanks?
There is no end to the evil of the Howard government-the ban on compulsory student unionism will bring an end to subsidised beer for students. And they pay increased welfare to families of gaoled jihadis.
About the fun of Google™ trends. Such as which countries most often Google™ bad+sex.
A glamorous young actor seems to be resparking interest in kabuki theatre.
Study fails to find any connection between marihuana and lung cancer.
The 30th anniversary of the Judgement of Paris.
May 25th is Towel Day, as a tribute to Douglas Adams.
Lab-grown meat is getting closer.
Thinning an elk herd is an expensive business-if the government does it.
“Dr Death” is dying and reflecting.
A service which offers to help one deal with cultural barriers to doing business in Japan.
An environmental think-tank makes it clear that poor folk should not try to better themselves, certainly not by migrating. Europe is restricting immigration and asylum access. Some in Mexico think a better border wall may be good for Mexico.
Being informative about sex can apparently reduce teenage pregnancy and STDs. Who would have thought knowledge and understanding is better than ignorance and fear? Via tcpip. The US is doing a lot to combat HIV/AIDS in the developing world.
A positive review of the science of Al Gore’s global warming movie. But it is still an exercise in feel-good simplifying. Suggestions that more CO2 leads to more C02 in positive feedback effect. Via tcpip. (Though CO2 in the atmosphere has been at much higher concentrations than it currently is, which suggests there may be countervailing effects.)
More folk in NSW have avowedly racist views (1 in 7) than in Queensland (1 in 10). Via p_cat. Which means 6 out of 7 and 9 out of 10 don’t. Could folk please stop going on and on about ‘racist Australia’ now thanks?
There is no end to the evil of the Howard government-the ban on compulsory student unionism will bring an end to subsidised beer for students. And they pay increased welfare to families of gaoled jihadis.