I read the good news on the ABC that parents are being encouraged to vaccinate by only getting the government child bonus payment if they’ve had their vaccinations. The following morning I read The Advertiser over breakfast (having been lulled into a sense of science security by Clare Peddie’s return from holidays) and read this… [Read more…]
September 29, 2011
Like the koala extinction story The Advertiser‘s bottom left corner of their front page seems to be the designated low-on-science hype corner at the moment. Nuclear waste to be trucked through SA The nation’s radioactive waste is destined to be trucked through South Australia because Blue Mountains locals have declared nuclear-free zones in their region,… [Read more…]
August 28, 2011
Okay, so I’m being overly picky. But I just thought the juxtaposition on these pics on a women’s mag website was amusing, in a very tragic sort of way. Celebrity, make-up, beautiful people and a little poverty. The crying, probably starving, cute African kid totally balances out looking at all the Photoshopped pics of celebrity… [Read more…]
August 17, 2011
A British man was tragically mauled to death by a shark on his honeymoon in the Seychelles, while his wife was sunbathing on the beach. Check out the advertisement underneath the Guardian story: Ooops! Ad placement fail.
August 16, 2011
I was going to write a quick straightforward post on this ABC news report quoting a survey commissioned by the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO), taking advantage of the general superiority we all like to feel when we read that people believe that light sabres are real, dinosaurs and humans co-existed, and the… [Read more…]
May 12, 2011
I’m A Climate Scientist It’s not going to win music video of the year, but Hungry Beast make an excellent point – the absence of climate scientists from the conversation about climate change. I loved the point of their “I’m not a climate scientist” montage at the start. Why have the real climate scientists disappeared… [Read more…]
November 28, 2011
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