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Ed Brown Oh gods I found this funny. I was watching The Daily Show with Jon Stewart this morning, which started off with a depressing look at Fox News’ vilification of poor…
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The Future of Skepticism: More. Positive. Stuff.
Dr. Paul Willis called for "More Positive Stuff" from skeptics in the future. We need to be doing more, it needs to be positive, and we need to broaden the…
Meanwhile, In America
Safe to say that since the election, Australia’s going to poo. We no longer have a Science ministry but we have a Minister for Sport. The Communications Minister has sacked…
Keep Real Journalism Alive
"Whatever your politics, or your preferences, and even if you’ve never bought a newspaper, start subscribing to at least one media website: whether it’s the Herald Sun or New Matilda,…
The Moon. Let’s Go Back.
Humanity needs to return to the moon. But instead we're buying fighter planes.
No Carbon Tax rally
Latika Bourke is a brilliant journalist, and in my opinion she’s one of Australia’s top political reporters up there with Annabell Crabb and Laurie Oakes. Today she was reporting from…
Space Shuttles are BIG!
We’ve heard a lot about the space shuttle program recently, after Discovery’s final launch last week. There are two more shuttle launches planned – Endeavour on April 19 and Atlantis…
Diaspora
Remember the outcry when Facebook changed its privacy settings every 6 weeks? A group of university students decided to make an alternative social network that gave ownership and control of…