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.