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The two LeunigsI know Michael's cartoons very well, unmistakable style and sharp wit, and as it happens today I came across and posted two of his. At the same time... | 133 | 1 | 1 | Feb 5 | Feb 5 | 7 hrs ago |
Australian writer Yang Hengjun given suspended death sentence in ChinaNot long after Australian Cheng Lei was released from Chinese prison, convicted of obscure spying offences, Australian writer Yang Hengjun has been gi... | 173 | 3 | 0 | Feb 5 | Feb 5 | 23 hrs ago |
Indonesian Presidential Elections 2024Joko Widodo's two-term presidency finishes shortly. It was relatively uneventful, apart from refusal to accept results by his opponent Prabowo Subian... | 137 | 0 | 0 | Feb 5 | Feb 5 | Mar 17 |
BRICS and replacing the USD as the global currencySatyajit Das on de-globalisation, détente, & de-coupling from the American dollar This is a thinkers program called Late Night Live by Richard... | 270 | 10 | 0 | Feb 4 | Feb 4 | Mar 15 |
Bricks - and a piece of comic geniusSomeone, several someones were speaking of bricks in one of the threads, and it reminded me of that wonderful comic story narrated by Gerard Hoffnung... | 128 | 0 | 1 | Feb 3 | Feb 3 | Mar 17 |
The Reith Lectures 2023 - The future of democracyThe Reith lectures are deeply thoughtful thought provoking lectures given each year by great thinkers. | 166 | 2 | 0 | Feb 1 | Feb 1 | Mar 17 |
The revealed history of Australian Invasion and WarsAt school in the 50s there was never a word of the wars and murders of the first people. Not a word. Mention of the intrepid explorers like Leichhar... | 184 | 1 | 0 | Jan 28 | Jan 28 | 4 hrs ago |
YAMP - yet another 'maths' problemAn encounter with Feynman, hey! All the A's are shown since no '.' is A We see at on... | 205 | 6 | 0 | Jan 20 | Jan 22 | Mar 13 |
Pretty well spot on.... | 297 | 8 | 2 | Jan 20 | Jan 21 | 5 hrs ago |
So Fargo season 5 is under wayNo high expectations since series descend season by season, but this has the same quirky feel and music.... | 305 | 1 | 0 | Nov 22 | Jan 18 | Mar 16 |
Introducing Eddie Woo - MisterWootubeHeard of him? Watched any of his maths wootubes? He's a famous enthusiastic teacher, originally Malaysian Chinese moved to Australia and started pro... | 215 | 5 | 0 | Jan 16 | Jan 16 | 12 hrs ago |
Time for a little something from my favourite chanteuseUsually (she tells me) she buys her clothes and accessories from Vinnies, St Vincent de Paul, but not this time, for sure. And as for the guy upstair... | 216 | 0 | 0 | Jan 14 | Jan 14 | 15 hrs ago |
So (some of) you want this man as your president (again)Incoherent vulgar crude rant. Don't like Meidastouch? But it is Trump speaking. Ye... | 763 | 20 | 1 | Nov 20 | Jan 14 | 15 hrs ago |
Someone was pleading with me to post another maths thread - so here we goFrom mathologer, along with numberphile and agadmator one of my go-to threads... | 259 | 4 | 0 | Jan 10 | Jan 11 | 24 hrs ago |
Word of the day (for me at least) Phallocratic!(Beauf, short for beau-frère, or “brother-in-law,” signifies “an uncultivated, vulgar, narrow-minded and phallocratic man,” according to... | 264 | 3 | 0 | Jan 9 | Jan 9 | Mar 17 |
The Handshake - Philip Adams Late Night Livewatching, no listening to this, the famous moment when Mandela shook the hand of Pienaar at Rugby World Cup 1995 came up, as a moment of enormous symb... | 163 | 0 | 0 | Jan 9 | Jan 9 | 18 hrs ago |
In a pig's ear'In a pig's ear' I quite lately hear Is disputed and reputed to be a pig's eye but nonetheless you should not doubt the pig - it cannot fly. y... | 538 | 2 | 0 | Jan 8 | Jan 9 | Mar 16 |
Valley Forge speechWhat a sick dot dot dot... Well there's the first front foot speech in the campaign, and high time! But the powers of Americans to forget and ration... | 378 | 13 | 1 | Jan 5 | Jan 7 | Mar 14 |
Books that changed my thinking back then through the 60sJohn dos Passos stands out for his USA trilogy, although I guess I read his entire bookshelf. I have an abiding memory of the Wobblies history... | 182 | 0 | 1 | Jan 7 | Jan 7 | 23 hrs ago |
Where are the CS South Africans here?Enjoying the cricket against India perhaps? All out for 55, but then the last 6 Indian batsmen all fell for zero, not a single run added - a new Cric... | 252 | 1 | 0 | Jan 3 | Jan 5 | Mar 17 |
two hundred hack attempts per day so far this yearI had occasion to login to my microsoft 365 account today, needing to renew expired payment method, and so I checked the hotmail activity - 700 failed... | 352 | 5 | 2 | Jan 3 | Jan 4 | 16 hrs ago |
A sticker I saw, walking home: Stand up for Palestine!And I noted my reaction, taken aback... What? Stand up for a people which seeks supports and fosters the concept of extermination of Israel and the J... | 591 | 8 | 2 | Dec 10 | Jan 4 | 15 hrs ago |
uva uvam vivendowas all I could make out on the sign tied to the wagon - Lonesome Dove - something like 'grape by living grape...'. Tommy Lee Jones and Robert... | 228 | 0 | 0 | Jan 1 | Jan 1 | Mar 16 |
Avogadro was a pretty weird looking dude, strongly reminds me of a crow, those eyes.But how did they calculate 'Avogadro's number' to such precision? Surely no other universal constant or quantity is known to 8 decimal places? 6.0221... | 452 | 3 | 0 | Dec 3 | Dec 29 | 22 hrs ago |
Twin Sisters of Kyoto - the sense of 'Japaneseness' in post-war fictionI read quite a lot of Japanese fiction, mid-20th century, Kobo Abe, Soseki and Kawabata in particular from 2005-2012 because the Japan-Australia socie... | 270 | 0 | 0 | Dec 19 | Dec 19 | Mar 16 |
Indulgent nostalgia - Joni Mitchell 2022The Robbie Robertson dedication led to a dip into memory and Joni Mitchell now recovered sufficiently to sing and play again - hence Newport 2022 htt... | 235 | 1 | 0 | Dec 18 | Dec 18 | Mar 15 |
Disappearing blog? Scorcese Killers of the flower moonI watched this tedious long-winded film with Di Caprio, de Niro and Lithgow - 210 minutes of it - with great perseverance ... but noted at the end... | 335 | 1 | 0 | Dec 18 | Dec 18 | Mar 17 |
Random recollections - pigs in a blanketCirca 1976-7 I think - we landed in San Francisco and then by Pinto to San Jose, Monterey Carmel Big Sur, San Luis Obisbo, Santa Barbara ... But I h... | 325 | 2 | 0 | Dec 13 | Dec 16 | 21 hrs ago |
Oliver Stone's "The Untold History of the United States"Came across this recently and it is fascinating to see alternative presentation of facts, with historical views I had never encountered. For example... | 417 | 2 | 1 | Dec 11 | Dec 12 | 5 hrs ago |
A tale of two chickensNot, not Dickens - Chickens! The first chicken I ever had and another later - neither memorable for the eating but for the circumstances. In the Hol... | 268 | 1 | 0 | Oct 17 | Dec 10 | Mar 13 |
Contacted here by a Palestinian refugee now in EgyptA young woman from Gaza, seeking just conversation and apparently above board, has contacted me here. She says the Red Cross assisted her to find ref... | 517 | 8 | 0 | Dec 3 | Dec 8 | Mar 16 |
Change in social customMy suburban street is dead straight, and runs over two modest hills, around 100 houses, last number 101 with just a few missing or doubled. There has... | 354 | 4 | 0 | Dec 2 | Dec 6 | 2 hrs ago |
Online romantic and Bitcoin scamSo she contacted me in wechat early October, Late forties very presentable. She was in Perth, she said, but I think never explained how she'd come b... | 625 | 16 | 1 | Dec 2 | Dec 3 | Mar 17 |
So Kissinger gone...A figure prominent in my memory of the late sixties, and through the seventies whose finger had so clearly been in the Vietnam and Chile pies. Has an... | 375 | 3 | 0 | Nov 30 | Nov 30 | 15 hrs ago |
Maori or Moriori - which is the myth? Evidence based science vs mythologyReproduced because CS member prefers fiction or myth to fact Quote from an 'enlightened' CS member (nameless) who deletes facts which disagree... | 417 | 13 | 0 | Oct 15 | Nov 30 | Mar 16 |
At 2am or so it was 7 for 90-something, chasing 291ODI World cup 2023 Aus vs AFG - all over (bar the shouting), so off to bed. Yet another humiliation. When I woke at 7am, the smartphone message - no... | 361 | 6 | 0 | Nov 7 | Nov 20 | Mar 12 |
Whistling past the graveyardThis is from quite a while ago, but I came across it just today: "Whistling past the graveyard": Judge scolds Trump lawyers for pushing "simpl... | 236 | 0 | 0 | Nov 18 | Nov 18 | Mar 12 |
Thinking back to the defeat of HillaryWell it left me then with the taste of regret. Not for the loss of HC but for the incoming of that gormless ogre. I recall the debates he had with H... | 1,041 | 49 | 0 | Nov 5 | Nov 13 | 20 hrs ago |
The Aurora - Australis this time, not BorealisSolar storm produces stunning aurora australis along WA's southern coast, Wheatbelt | 283 | 3 | 0 | Nov 7 | Nov 7 | Mar 16 |
NomadlandA sobering movie, the second thought-provoking movie by Chloe Zhao I've watched (previously The Rider) Both of them bring an alternative viewpoint.[q... | 424 | 5 | 1 | Nov 4 | Nov 5 | Mar 16 |
Anniversary of the Itaewon Halloween disasterIt was shades of the Hajj Mina Mecca disasters, but hallmarked by the deaths of 159 Korean youths. Here in suburban Sydney I walked the kilometre to... | 440 | 2 | 0 | Nov 1 | Nov 1 | Mar 16 |
Polish elections seem to halt or reverse the global drift to the rightCentrist parties in Poland appear to have won power and should undo the de-democratisation carried out by Duda. A voluntary voting turnout of 73% see... | 351 | 5 | 0 | Oct 25 | Oct 28 | 21 hrs ago |
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