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The donations button has been fixed…

March 11, 2010 – 12:19 am

… Many thanks to the people who were kind enough to tell us it was busted, as we would never have found out otherwise. We’re not in the habit of checking. With any sort of luck it is now clever enough to spot whether you are in Australia or the UK (where most of our [...]

By skepticlawyer | Also posted in Blogging, Events | Comments (0)

‘For War is a Drug’

March 2, 2010 – 11:34 am

O wad some Power the gift tae gie us 
To see oursels as ithers see us! 
It wad frae mony a blunder free us, 
An foolish notion.
From Robert Burns, To a Louse
The course Burns commends has, of late, become unfashionable. Instead of observing others unlike ourselves and reporting back, we have been enjoined to comment on things within our [...]

By skepticlawyer | Also posted in Middle east, Popular culture, Terrorism | Tagged , , , , | Comments (11)

The Statue of Liberty is very green

February 23, 2010 – 9:34 am

It is likely impossible to say anything new about New York so I am not going to try. This post is a placeholder and an apology for not being around the blog very much, something likely to continue for the rest of this week while I see the sights.
Briefly, I attended a conference in Washington [...]

By skepticlawyer | Also posted in Immigration, Personal liberty | Tagged , , , , | Comments (8)

Sunday Funnie and Open Discussion Thread

February 22, 2010 – 2:30 am

Iran’s supreme leader has denied it is developing nuclear weapons, after a new report from the UN atomic watchdog, the IAEA, sparked an international outcry.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said any fears were “baseless” as Iranians’ beliefs “bar us from using such weapons”.
The blunt report raised concerns Iran was working on nuclear weapons.
Russia said it was “very [...]

By DeusExMacintosh | Also posted in Blogging, Free Speech, Funnies | Comments (10)

Snatch and grab

December 17, 2009 – 2:31 am

An octopus and its coconut-carrying antics have surprised scientists.
Underwater footage reveals that the creatures scoop up halved coconut shells before scampering away with them so they can later use them as shelters. Writing in the journal Current Biology, the team says it is the first example of tool use in octopuses.
One of the researchers, Dr [...]

By DeusExMacintosh | Also posted in Animals, Environment, Fark!, Science | Tagged , , , | Comments (10)

An appeal to my American readers…

December 13, 2009 – 10:11 pm

This is a fairly blatant exercise in tourism blegging, so if you don’t live on the Eastern Seaboard of the USA, then feel free to ignore it.
I will be attending a conference in Washington DC from 19-21 February, 2010, and (having done this once before) would like to avoid flying across the pond, staying for [...]

By skepticlawyer | Also posted in Site News, Society | Comments (3)

Now this is a good thing

October 28, 2009 – 6:00 am

Well, I think it is, anyway:

Oxford University is hoping to welcome its first Aboriginal Australian students next year, it has been announced.
From next month, applications for two scholarship places are being accepted.
The university said although it had a significant number of students from Australia, an indigenous Australian had never studied there.
The scholarships will pay for [...]

By skepticlawyer | Also posted in Academia | Tagged , , , | Comments (56)

Weekend open thread and general sickie whinge

October 16, 2009 – 7:02 pm

Open threads/weekend forums have long been a fixture at Larvatus Prodeo and Catallaxy. We’ve never done them here on the grounds that we thought other blogs already did an admirable job on that front. However, after a couple of requests from regulars — and due to the fact that Legal Eagle is spectacularly sick at [...]

By skepticlawyer | Also posted in Blogging | Comments (60)

Rattling the chipped enamel cup…

September 28, 2009 – 7:16 pm

For reasons unknown, it seems that people have decided that the last week or so is donation time, and we’ve had three donations land in the tip jar. We are very grateful to you all; it is handy to know that we’re not boring our readers to tears or driving them around the bend. With [...]

By skepticlawyer | Also posted in Blogging, Events | Comments (5)

Vale Justice Peter Dutney

September 8, 2009 – 6:03 am

Sometimes, death is a thief, rather than a mere killer. At this moment, I think it has stolen a good and fair man from me, and I am not happy. I am, however, determined to honour that man’s memory in the way recommended by Marcus Aurelius in the Meditations: by speaking about his fine qualities.
Midway [...]

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