The reflecting pool between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument, in Washington D.C., was dedicated in 1922. It is 619 metres long and 51 metres wide, and less than…
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The Australian Broadcasting Corporation television show Gruen1, which examines the advertising industry, sometimes hilariously, is always entertaining. On a recent show telecast on Wednesday June 3rd, one of the regular…
The very peculiar Chris Uhlmann has outdone himself with a piece in the Australian (where else?) entitled ‘Will Pauline Hanson be the Martin Luther of our time’1. While the title…
I was talking to a couple of former colleagues today, and what they were telling me about missing Law of the Sea data subsequent to their time in the organisation…
On its website, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) styles itself as the “world’s premier foreign intelligence agency”. It states that “the work we do at CIA is vital to U.S….
Often you will hear religious nutters try to give their weird beliefs a veneer of credibility by using scientific terminology. This is perhaps best exemplified by the use of the…
Late last year, I wrote a piece about the Ghost Shark, an extra-large autonomous underwater vehicle coming into service with the Royal Australian Navy. In that piece, I noted how…
ISIS, also known as Islamic State (IS) is a Sunni extremist group that emerged during the Iraq War and later seized large parts of Iraq and Syria. At the height…
The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) is a landmark accord reached between Iran and several world powers, including the United States, in July 2015. Under this plan, Iran agreed…
