Enough has been written about Tony Abbott’s bizarre speech at the Global Warming Policy Foundation1, such that it needs little comment here. Its stupidity, inaccuracies and downright lies have been…
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Often you will hear someone stridently stating that it is only the sun that warms the earth and the minuscule amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has no effect,…
Often you will see Americans in Tornado Alley giving thanks to god for their survival when they crawl out of their basements after their house has been lifted off its…
When fresh out of university, I got a job as a geologist, and one day it was my turn to be ‘on duty’ in my organisation. This meant answering questions…
Often you will hear Australia referred to as the world’s largest island, or conversely, its smallest continent, or sometimes, the island continent. Which is it? Most people have no idea…
Often you will hear climate change deniers or other anti-science buffoons saying, as if it was a valid argument, that scientists thought the earth was flat for hundreds of years….
Often in the newspaper you will see it stated that some scientific theory has been proven. That is impossible. Scientific theories cannot be proven, only disproven or shown to be…
Researchers from the Australian National University and Monash University have determined that listening to music decreased inattentional blindness1. Inattentional blindness is also known as perceptual blindness, and is a psychological…
If you happen to live in the Australian Capital Territory1, you live in a relatively small enclave excised from New South Wales. It is a subcrescentic area of land with…
No, this is not an article on the study of the undead, it is about science which gets a run in the newspapers and on television, but has been or…
