When you are a scientist, you know what doing your own research means. However, relatively few people are scientists, and among those who aren’t, many have not even the most…
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In 2018, an estimated 570,000 women were diagnosed with cervical cancer worldwide, and about 311,000 women died from the disease. Almost all cervical cancer cases (99%) are linked to infection with…
Many years ago, I was talking to a friend who had been at a dinner party of some sort, at which a professional economist was present. He got into conversation…
Anti-vaxxers (anti-vaccination activists) will often try to tell you that the Covid-19 vaccine has killed thousands of people. In the most recent case, an antivaxxer tried to tell me that…
We need to start off with a bit of geology for this article, before we move into chemistry. The Permian Period is an interval of geological time which began 298.9…
St Hilda’s Anglican School for Girls is a private school in Perth1. For girls to attend, they charge $17,786 for Kindergarten and $27,120 for Year 12, with other years being…
Last year we had our first lockdown to help cut down the spread of Covid-19 and one of the enjoyable parts of the end of lockdown was getting rid of…
Portugal, a nation with a population of just over 10 million, like most countries in Europe, has suffered badly in the pandemic. One in ten of the population have been…
Early in September, I wrote a piece with the rather obscure title ‘Antivaxxers don’t do irony’. Its main thesis was that antivaxxers do not seem to understand that the governments…
