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Melbourne has a Measles outbreak 26 Aug 2013 | 09:47 pm
Remember Measles? That entirely preventable childhood illness with potentially fatal consequences that we used to get a lot before the late 1960s? The one we practically hadn’t seen in the first world...
The Comedian’s Funeral 25 Aug 2013 | 03:45 pm
I see a lot of kids ecstatic about Lego Star Wars, or Superman, or Lego Simpsons, which according to my 6-year old is due out in 2014(and surely he must know). But I do not see enough attention paid t...
Not cool, Melbourne Aquarium 25 Aug 2013 | 02:12 pm
Promised my kid sharks today, drove an hour to Melbourne, paid the royal admission fee of 56 bucks for one child, one adult, to find…no sharks. Nada. Turtles and seahorses. Starfish and eels. Penguins...
A primer on Hyper-Skepticism 19 Aug 2013 | 08:55 am
Hyperskeptics seem to abound these days, whenever there is a challenge to people’s long-held beliefs in the form of conflicting testimony or evidence, that testimony or evidence is dismissed by demand...
No tax benefits if you don’t vaccinate 18 Aug 2013 | 09:59 am
That’s the plan of Australia’s Labor Party should it win the upcoming election: Speaking at Westmead Hospital in Sydney, Mr Rudd said that those who do not vaccinate their children will not get the Fa...
Just curious here, Atheist Foundation of Australia 16 Aug 2013 | 01:42 pm
When you retweeted that Mr Deity video by Brian K Dalton containing his tasteless, wrong and embarrassingly misplaced comments on the Shermer business yesterday, hours after multiple websites had poin...
German cabaret greats riffing off Tom Waits’ “In the neighborhood” 14 Aug 2013 | 06:15 pm
For 25 years now there has been a regular comedy meeting going on in Germany, held in the old waiting room below Cologne Train Station. It’s called Mitternachtsspitzen. Cabaret and comedy are far more...
There exist Homeopathy First Aid kits 13 Aug 2013 | 09:22 pm
As Harriet Hall points out. I think I can retire now, clearly I’ve seen it all. Even Amazon.com sells them, for $54.99. They contain 18 vials of tiny sugar pills, all with potencies of 200C, guarantee...
John Oliver on the Australian Election Campaign 13 Aug 2013 | 08:35 pm
Hilarious clip from the Daily Show lampooning our election campaign, everything from Stephanie “I can see Islam from my house” Banister to Tony Abbott attempting to kiss innocent bystanders’ babies. I...
It’s National Science Week in Australia! 13 Aug 2013 | 09:38 am
From August 10-18 is this year’s annual National Science Week over here. I like their mission statement: Now into it’s sixteenth year, National Science Week provides an opportunity to acknowledge the ...
