Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
Sunday, February 2, 2020

Overpopulation

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Recently the famous primatologist Jane Goodall attracted criticism for saying that environmental issues "wouldn't be a problem...
Wednesday, February 20, 2019

Review of the Aachen Memorandum

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I picked this book up at a book fair after having read that it was a satire on bureaucracy and 'political correctness'. Although I a...
Tuesday, April 10, 2018

Sam Harris and Ezra Klein on intelligence and race

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Recently atheist activist Sam Harris and journalist Ezra Klein had a discussion about intelligence and race . The background is that Harris ...
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Sunday, December 10, 2017

Andrew Sullivan on baking cakes

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As always the following is my personal opinion and not necessarily that of my employer, friends, family or potted plants. To follow news f...
Saturday, November 11, 2017

What race is a dickhead, indeed

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Reading the recent news items about an Australian senator with Muslim background being abused in a pub by a bunch of racists, two thoughts ...
Monday, September 18, 2017

Some quick, handy references

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I just read that an Australian Senator called Fierravanti-Wells said the following : I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman ...
Tuesday, August 15, 2017

This is not how this works, religious freedom edition

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Sometimes it is interesting what raises one's hackles. Today one could get upset about domestic terrorism in the USA or the level of dis...
Wednesday, August 9, 2017

Discussions of diversity and equality are generally very depressing

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Somebody at Google circulated an opinion piece on Google's diversity efforts, which was ultimately published by Gizmodo . A public discu...
Saturday, July 22, 2017

The Prince

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I have arrived in Shenzhen, China, for the International Botanic Congress. I meant to upload a few pictures of the Luohu district today but ...
Sunday, July 16, 2017

Free-association word salad is not the same as analysis

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I find it remarkable what kinds of pieces are sometimes published by otherwise serious news organisations. Today during breakfast I made the...
Sunday, February 5, 2017

Two weird realisations about the gay marriage discussion

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Certainly other people will have had the very same realisations long before me, but it has only recently occurred to me how absurd some of t...
Sunday, January 29, 2017

Useless but unavoidable political rant

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As usual, the following is entirely my own opinion and not that of anybody else or any institution I am affiliated with, and I am obviously ...
Thursday, November 24, 2016

The political system of the USA

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So, about that recent election. I am not an American, so I don't actually have a horse in that race except to the degree that everybody ...
Tuesday, September 20, 2016

Independence

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Soon the state (really territory) election is going to take place, and consequently there are now all manner of posters around us. Given tha...
Thursday, December 17, 2015

Fun with trendline charts

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Via Pharyngula I was recently lead to an American blog that had produced the following chart of average annual global temperatures, appare...
Monday, June 23, 2014

Euphemistic threats

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I am kind of wondering whether I merely increasingly notice something over the past few years or whether it is actually on the rise. David...
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Monday, December 23, 2013

In the case of collections, the humanities seem to have the edge

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From colleagues in plant taxonomy I have repeatedly heard anecdotes and rumors indicating that some managers and politicians appear to have ...
Monday, September 23, 2013

The odd interpretation of election results in the media

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I really have little interest to discuss party politics here but one thing that I found odd in the last few days is how election results are...
Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Miscellanea

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Did I mention the German federal election earlier? It will take place the coming Sunday. So why did we get one of our two ballot papers only...
Monday, September 9, 2013

Reflections on current elections

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Last Saturday was the national election in Australia. The country has a system in which all the members of the more powerful house - the par...