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Plastic is fantastic!

Plastic in all its various forms has transformed our world.

by Ken Calvert - 6/06/2019 - 15 comments

What was wrong with the polls?

While it’s virtually impossible to be certain even about the exact details of the past, it is completely impossible to be certain about the future.

by Graham Young - 29/05/2019 - 10 comments

Living in electric dreams

Electric vehicles may be the next big thing, but the ALP's policy will do little to help the environment and will do more to waste taxpayers money and hurt consumers.

by Tristan Prasser - 13/05/2019 - 16 comments

Means of control: Russia’s attempt to hive off the Internet

Like many of President Vladimir Putin's projects, tackling the internet has all the elements of the improbable, the boastful and the grandly quixotic.

by Binoy Kampmark - 15/02/2019 - 2 comments

'Instagram Helped Kill My Daughter': censorship tendencies in social media

Any time the censor steps in as defender of morality and safety citizens should be alarmed. Such attitudes are precisely the sorts of things that empty libraries and lead to the burning of books.

by Binoy Kampmark - 31/01/2019 - 4 comments

Canadian government’s April Fools Day hoax

The fear is that if you don't act, the sky will fall. The guilt is that your behavior is part of how humans are destroying the planet.

by Tim Ball and Tom Harris - 17/01/2019 - 8 comments

Windpower and Sydney to Hobart: reaching the limits

The race combines disdain for cost with leading edge technology so has to be at one of the pinnacles of windpower.

by Graham Young - 4/01/2019 - 29 comments

Security derangement complex: technology companies and Australia’s anti-encryption law

The Prime Minister has been able to count on supporters who see privacy as dispensable and security needs as unimpeachable.

by Binoy Kampmark - 10/12/2018 - 3 comments

Geo-engineering: acting in ignorance of the consequences

Geo-engineering: acting in ignorance of the consequences.

by Tim Ball and Tom Harris - 6/11/2018 - 24 comments

An important essay by Richard Lindzen

Of course, the climate system is driven by the sun, but even if the solar forcing were constant, the climate would still vary.

by Don Aitkin - 26/10/2018 - 85 comments

Augmenting brains: Google turns twenty

The European Union has already taken up the matter, fining Google $5 billion for antitrust violations relating to its Android market dominance.

by Binoy Kampmark - 2/10/2018 - 1 comment

Trillion dollar companies: the Apple empire and concentrated markets

The converse is claimed to be true: that concentration, oligopolistic power, and strings pulled by a few players is the way to keep innovation alive.

by Binoy Kampmark - 9/08/2018 - 6 comments

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