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POPSMungo MacCallum - Political Corrections If you wish to learn a little about Australian politics, this is as good a place as any to start. So Rudd wants Australia to play a bigger part of the world stage. Big deal, that's the way the rest of the world is going.
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POPS'Cut not sink' emissions says expert
Many things as our history has shown can't be, and should not be tested while being put into practice. A quick study of our history of DIY efforts shows us that. We still have trouble learning the hard way. I have trouble imagining many of our solutions doing more than taking a system that is unbalanced and making it more unbalanced. Many a persons famous last words have been 'this time it will be different.- and better'. Which can be clearly stupid, and the reason they are last words. We certainly need to give nature more credit and respect t that we are. It has its own means of self correction. We can work out how to work according to the principles of nature, rather than our own vanity, or we'll be corrected out of existence. Still, a new thread could start 'Homo Novalis' but it doesn't take very many individuals to establish the start of a new line. the rest of us may soon be obsolete. (soon in evolutionary time) and a subject in achaeology classes. Existential aversion therapy
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POPSStudy blows whistle on ref's fitness. The referee must keep up with the fastest player, for the whole match. The players take turns to score points, and spread the load between the team. The referee not only has to keep up, but never take their eye off the ball. Not only that, if a team loses, they can get the blame. If you can't play become a referee? More like the other way around.
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POPSHerbicide review 'fails' the environment The review recommends changes on labels to reduce the risk of the herbicide contaminating waterways. I'm sure that's physically impossible. Unless we can work out how to grow dry plants. There is also a cop out, saying that it is the responsibility of the States to ensure this happens. The don't mention how, apart from the warning on the label.
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POPS15,000 Dead, 30,000 Missing After Catastrophic Myanmar Cyclone "The combination of the cyclone and the referendum within a few days of each other makes an angry population angrier and vulnerable and makes the political situation more volatile" than it has been since last year's massive pro-democracy demonstrations, said Monique Skidmore, a Myanmar expert at Australian National University. At least 31 people were killed and thousands more were detained when the military cracked down on peaceful protests in September led by Buddhist monks and democracy advocates.
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POPSJapanese Whalers SHOOT Capt. Paul Watson of Sea Shepherd--He's saved by vest The Steve Irwin continues to track the Nisshin Maru west after it altered its northerly course. We have received verbal confirmation that the Australian Embassy has been advised by the Japanese that a crew member on board the Nisshin Maru fired “warning” shots. In addition to the lead bullet lodged in Captain Watson’s Kevlar vest, up to seven flash grenades were also hurled by armed Japanese Coast Guard Officers, injuring two other Steve Irwin crew members.
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POPSDo animals think like autistic savants ? I'm sure the animals were thinking like this a long time before people turned up. So far the theory doesn't seem like it will be easy to verify one way or another, but who knows ? We are always discovering things we never expected to know.
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POPSSoftware crackers crave a challenge Their motivation isn't social kudos? Being motivated by social kudos seems like a great way to get caught. Cracking software is the geek equivalent to doing puzzles. The harder they get, the better they feel when they crack them. Then of course if one seems to be beyond cracking, it can be shelved, maybe reopened when struck by a new idea. There are plenty of others to move on to. The fact that it can be commercial software is generally incidental .They just happen to be the people who take the most time to lock their programs. generally other people benefit. Of course the reason cracking doesn't appeal to me, is because there is something about commercial software that leaves me cold. There are better ways to run a system. Like with clipmarks, because it is open source, the users can contribute as well as get the benefits.
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POPSStingray beats burgers any day I know what they mean. Remember home cook food? No? Anything made at home beats takeaway hands down. For a start you know exactly what goes into it. Second you can choose your own ingredients, and cook what you feel like. People forget how when the Australian Aboriginals lived off the land there was an almost limitless variety of foods, that could be gathered in different seasons, They managed to survive this way for around 80,000 years. of course many of their traditional sources have become limited or endangered, and the advent of 'civilization' has meant much of this traditional knowledge is being lost. There is a man named Major (retired Army)Les Hiddins, also known as the 'Bush Tucker Man' who has written several books about Australian Native foods still in the bush. They are big books, with hundreds of examples and have photographs and locations, but as Australia is becoming more and more mined, fished and cultivated more and more sources are disappearing.
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POPSLaundry for lazy people They have already developed the same kind of thing for cotton, but wool, containing proteins, makes it harder for the active ingredient Titanium Dioxide to stick. You still have to hang them out.
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POPSAustralian Ant Safari Entomologists say Australia has the highest ant biodiversity in the world. In other countries, there may be 30 different species per hectare, in Australia there are more like 100. The text in the clip continues below the pictures. At the site there are details of how ants play an important part in the environment.
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POPSTrachoma programs fail Indigenous Australians Trachoma is spread through poor hygiene and living conditions, and disappeared in non-Indigenous Australians about 100 years ago. Australia is the only developed country to still have the preventable disease. The conditions in which Indigenous Australians live could hardly be described as developed. Perhaps Australia could be described as selectively developed.
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POPSAussie bees cleared of US colony collapse? Bee expert Doug Somerville said viruses only tend to be a problem for bees when they are already sick from malnutrition, pests, diseases, or environmental factors and pesticides. Apparently Australian bees don't like feeding off crops and weeds that have been sprayed with pesticide.
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POPShow to talk like a wine expert this guy raves on about wines and is very learned, but when he gives the thumbs down to a drop, it could bring down the poor blokes whole livelihood
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POPS4D ultrasounds may test abortion laws 4D ultrasounds can show movement of the foetus, developing features from early stages. Early growth can be seen in a new light. The inception of consciousness is more difficult to pinpoint. The development of consciousness may be a gradual acquisition of sensory information, and subsequent associated perspective, that does not stop until we die, perhaps beyond. The difference between a foetus and an the old may just be experience.
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