Found a YouTube version to replace the CollegeHumor direct embedding which broke the blog. (link in case the embedded Flash doesn’t work for you) Oh, the memories: maintaining a dial-up connection uphill both ways in the snow! H/T Pam at… Read More ›
Science
Opportunities squandered
JOHN Howard squandered the benefits of the $80 billion-a-year resources boom and wanted to be re-elected so he could retire, Labor leader Kevin Rudd said yesterday. Defining the choice facing voters in one of his last major speeches of the… Read More ›
So Similar
A draft I’ve had hanging around since last month: I’m trying to get these things out for some discussion even if I haven’t been able to wrap a bow around them to my entire satisfaction. Via Samara at The F-word… Read More ›
From the archives: Kate Harding on cyberbullying as a feminist issue
An oldie but a goodie revisited: Kate Harding “On Being a No-Name Blogger Using Her Real Name”. It’s hard to pick out the best bits, but here, have two.
Fetuses and roundworms: more alike than you might think
[image source] I’ve been following the Feministe thread about a little girl with a parasitic twin. The discussion meandered into a wrangling about whether or not a fetus can be thought about as a parasite. Coincidentally, the BBC now reports… Read More ›
Nigersaurus taqueti: prehistoric fernmower
For those of us who grew up in the 1970s, the dinosaur world is barely recognisable nowadays. Remember Brontosaurus? The NYT and Project Exploration detail what is known so far of a newly-discovered dinosaur that roamed Niger back when the… Read More ›
So what are you doing tonight at 9pm?
You could do a lot worse than listen to the repeat broadcast of today’s Life Matters Health Report program on Radio National. It was a cracker, taking a different tack in this election period on the traits we all have… Read More ›
Bobby’s Dairy: “Your baby cannot have your milk.”
Moving house is sucking all my blogergy, so here’s a tale for you. Trish and Bobby. [Image source] Background to this story: Bobby was born with hypoplastic left heart syndrome. This is a congenital defect in which the left side… Read More ›
Sing it, sister
Helen Balcony responds to the study showing that some scheduled births (i.e. caesarians and inductions) were pushed back by a week or so in order to take advantage of the latest baby bribe bonus, noting that the analysis (which bemoans… Read More ›
There was an old shark who swallowed a fish
I dunno why she swallowed that fish, Perhaps she’ll per-ish. There was an old shark who swallowed an amphibian Eschewing nibblin’, she swallowed that amphibian! She swallowed the amphibian to catch the fish I don’t know why she swallowed that… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 