I could have used many harsher terms, but I was exhausted from outrage and despair after reading his latest, and couldn’t really give him my best invective. Apparently, despite decades of study from medical and childhood health professions, Michael Savage… Read More ›
Science
Call to activism: oppose infant formula promotion in Qld Indigenous communities
“Use my picture if it will help” said the woman in this photograph. The babies are twins: the child with the bottle is a girl – she died the next day – but her brother was breastfed and is thriving…. Read More ›
Beats me
Ganked from comments at Sadly, No!. On July 18, 2008 at 18:47, Percy ‘Mad Dog’ Plumflute said, Poster on the global warming “hoax” thread: I believe the only reason we’re in a cooling period is as a result to the… Read More ›
Take that, cephalopodophiles
Andy sings a song of praise for the strong-stomached Melbourne Museum volunteers who braved a particularly malodorous exhibit – the dissection of a 550 pound giant squid: Members of the audience were seen covering their noses and mouths and retching… Read More ›
Friday News Links Dump
It’s all over the TV news here in Australia this morning, though I can’t find video online, but here’s a picture gallery of the Amazing Shark Rescue Mission, where the marine scientists from the Gold Coast’s Sea World park led… Read More ›
Shooting crickets in a barrel
Is there really any point criticising gender-related MSM science “journalism” anymore? It has devolved into farce. Alias-sqbr spotted this one on the ABC News site: Men need carbs, women need meat: study The wisdom of feeding the man meat has… Read More ›
Order of the Douche Savant: MJA forced-birther Edward D Watt
In other news from the latest Medical Journal of Australia, the Journal published forced-birther pontifications[1] from Claremont-based retired UWA Politics academic Edward D. Watt (Ted Watt). You know the drill: The article is entirely adult-centred: its authors never hint that… Read More ›
SF Sunday: cult SF films
This topic seems timely given the discovery of a full-length version of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis that had been disregarded for years in the archives of a museum in Buenos Aires. Image Source: Emory Libraries Metropolis is a classic utopia revealed… Read More ›
You wouldn’t want to have actually seen this
A superior example of an artist’s reconstruction of a historical event. Image Source: Sky and Telescope, Tunguska: 100 Years and Counting Caption: Here’s how the Tunguska blast might have looked from the windows of a nearby airliner. The expanding shock… Read More ›
All time favourite
Come to Australia, you might accidentally get killed! The song is “Deadly Animals”, by Australian comedy musical duo The Scared Weird Little Guys (aka the Scaredies), and it’s all over the Intertubes (my second cousin just posted it to us… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 