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Title: Why I am not an Australian Skeptic
Title: Jordan Peterson - A left anarchic crititique
Title: Froth Flotation and Broken Hill
Title: Al-Jazeera and Selective Coverage
Title: Chomsky and conflicting elements of US foreign policy
Title: Intellectual Property - Pushing back at the abuse
Title: Australian Politics: the Centre, the Extremes, the Balkanisation
Title: Presentation to GSC Ryde Assurance Listening Sesssion
Title: Aging - Mechanisms, Interventions and Possibilities
Title: A Motor Vehicle Accident - and the Law
Title: Atheism, the good life and the source of values
Title: Islam
Title: Vaccination - A reply to Mr. Adams
Title: The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman - and some reflections on the Great War
Title: Zoe's Law - A Different Perspective
Title: Cancer: Mainstream and Alternative Therapies
Title: The WA Goldfields Pipeline
Title: Copyright, Patents, Enclosures, Commons - and the Trans-Pacific Partnership
Title: Global Warming, the latest IPCC report - and Matt Ridley
Title: History: Technology, People, Society -- and Ryde

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From the Vault

  • Chomsky and conflicting elements of US foreign policy
  • Letter to Local Members
  • Atheism, the good life and the source of values
  • Protesting the Pope (Part 2 of 2)
  • Nuclear Power - from the age of Howard
  • Pope Mobilises Sydney Atheists (Part 1 of 2)
  • Drugs, the Cross and the 2011 NSW State Election

Of Interest

Why I am not an Australian Skeptic

Why am I not a skeptic? Well, at least, why am I not a part of organised skepticism, as claimed by the so-called Australian Skeptics, actually the NSW branch of Skepticism in Australia? It's the experiences I've had, and the resulting appreciation I developed. You might just claim it's sour grapes, but hopefully you'll find the detailed story persuasive.

History: Technology, People, Society -- and Ryde
Image of Halmeg plant, by courtesy of Ryde Library Service

I wonder about the past, I wonder about the different society, the different people, and the different economy - it prompts a brief look at some of the industrial history around Ryde, and the prominent sight of the "Halmeg" plant.

Jordan Peterson - A left anarchic crititique

Jordan Peterson - the person, his works, his impacts

Jordan Peterson is a professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto. A controversial figure, he has attracted a great deal of criticism and attention.

Froth Flotation and Broken Hill

Taking a look at "Froth Flotation" the technology mentioned, but not explained to my satisfaction, around Broken Hill

Al-Jazeera and Selective Coverage

Taking a look at Al-Jazeera coverage, and the conspicious absence of some events overlapping between Australia and Qatar.

While visiting my Aunt in Wollongong, one of her neighbours mentioned that he got up at 6am to watch Al-Jazeera news on SBS, where they were piping that through to their main broadcast, and that it gave an intriguingly "different" point of view.

Science

  • Why I am not an Australian Skeptic
  • Jordan Peterson - A left anarchic crititique
  • Froth Flotation and Broken Hill
  • Intellectual Property - Pushing back at the abuse
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