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• Spring in my garden

  By tigtog on 2007-09-17

  The blossom feeding parrot is a lorikeet. The tree is a Pohutukawa.

• EvoPysch and “natural” attraction.

  By tigtog on 2007-09-17 • ( 11 )

  I’ve been stewing up an FAQ for FF101 for a while, and it hasn’t come together as well as I’d like. I want to take on EvPsych, basically, and look at some of the crap on offer that claims that… Read More ›

• To the arsehole who thought the dent in his car was more important than my neighbour’s dog lying injured on the road

  By tigtog on 2007-09-15 • ( 1 )

  While you were abusing her for the horrible horrible dent in your car that a 25kg dog inflicted upon it, another car ran over the dog. He might have survived just you hitting him, but now he’s had to be… Read More ›

• Wanted? Want!

  By tigtog on 2007-09-14

  If you want one too, Ducky is selling proper poster-sized versions, beautifully printed on gorgeous paper. Put it in your window for the run-up to the election, frame it afterwards and put it in the loo! Fabulous. Image Source: Ampersand… Read More ›

• My ecoprint report card: could do better

  By tigtog on 2007-09-14 • ( 5 )

  I know a large part of my ecoprint above comes because I eat meat, I drive a car, and I have electricity (one car, and efficient/green electricity, but still). I’ve done reasonably well on the areas outside those parameters, although… Read More ›

• More “chemtrails” conspiracy theory

  By tigtog on 2007-09-13 • ( 2 )

  Remember my post from last week about CT Busters? I have sadly discovered that there are way too many videos on YouTube showing their “evidence” that jets are spraying poison chemicals all over our skies. Of course, these people would… Read More ›

• That surname thing bites again

  By tigtog on 2007-09-12 • ( 56 )

  Catherine Deveny writes ironically that her recent column on why do women still change their names upon marriage seems to have realised her “aim of whittling my readership down to three”. It was a case of Team Deveny versus Team… Read More ›

• Time to go?

  By tigtog on 2007-09-12

  Image Source: The Age The Liberal Party have just filed into a Party Meeting to debate Howard’s future as Prime Minister. It seems to be shaping up as a Potemkin meeting, with reports that Howard has effectively stared down his… Read More ›

• “Any woman scientist they draw looks severe and not very happy”

  By tigtog on 2007-09-12 • ( 2 )

  Top 5 Myths About Girls, Math and Science Myth 1: From the time they start school, most girls are less interested in science than boys are. Myth 2: Classroom interventions that work to increase girls’ interest in STEM run the… Read More ›

• Wednesday Wow: Calanais At Dusk

  By tigtog on 2007-09-12 • ( 3 )

  The next time I go to the UK and France I’d rather like to do a tour of various stone circles, menhirs, dolmens – any megaliths really – of Britain and Brittany.