A funny thing happened on the social media site, Mastodon. Someone made a comment about the name of the site and illustrated not a Mastodon, but a Mammoth. This was…
A scientific paper by researchers at the University of New South Wale (UNSW), recently published in the journal Nature Climate Change, undertakes modelling of the weakening or collapse of the…
There are a few cookers* who follow me on Twitter, probably to see what non-cookers are doing. I had an … um … interaction with one a couple of days…
At the Glasgow climate conference, then Prime Minister Scott Morrison [that still engenders relief] said Australia will reach net zero emissions by 2050. However, in the lead up to the…
In the hierarchy of life on planet Earth there are three domains. These are, the Eukaryota, Bacteria and Archaea. The Eukaryota comprise all the life around you that can be…
Australia has a National Hydrogen Strategy which supports all production sources that are capable of producing ‘clean hydrogen’. However, the definition of clean hydrogen is hydrogen produced using renewable energy…
When I heard about this candidate, without her name initially being mentioned, I made the assumption that it was the same person I had written about before1. But it wasn’t…
Someone online asked me and others to explain why we could not vote for the Morrison government (not that I ever would), I replied: “The constant lies, misogyny, racism, idiocy,…
I was asked to help crack rocks at a relatively newly discovered fossil locality a few weeks ago. It was a brief trip of only a few days, so as…
There is a short video doing the rounds currently, which states that there are some coincidences which cannot be explained, with the implication being that something ‘woowoo’ was responsible1. One…