Greg Barns SC has raised the possibility that the accuser of Christian Porter had a false memory and in an article in Crikey, David Hardaker has raised the possibility that…
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Humans need to keep their core temperature within certain limits. Too high (~40°C) and we die of hyperthermia; too low (~35°C) and we die of hypothermia. That is why when we exercise…
On Twitter, an emergency doctor, Tariq Jenner, tweeted “Sending solidarity to whoever the doctor is managing this incredibly distressing situation so calmly. This is what disinformation causes. Media personalities peddling…
I read a piece in the New Yorker by Anthony Gottlieb about the Cambridge mathematician Frank Ramsey1, a person of whom I had never heard. Reading about Ramsey makes one…
Several years ago, I travelled to the Gold Coast in Queensland and stayed in a motel just behind Main Beach, and at high tide I had to stand with my…
You may have noticed in recent years that the use of the epithet ‘unelected experts’ is becoming more common among the covid-19 deniers and climate change deniers. The apotheosis of…
Craig Kelly has been the subject of derision here before. His opinion that ancient photos are a reliable measure of sea level rise1, and that Pacific atolls float on the…
