2016.11.22 Very Very Mediocre
The future doesn't belong to the faint hearted, it belongs to the brave. - Ronald Reagan
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The future doesn't belong to the faint hearted, it belongs to the brave.
Ronald Reagan, 28 January 1986
F.U.
"This is the beginning of the Western Spring." - Malcolm Roberts 21 Nov 2016
Housing First https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_First
Quantum mechanics
Electromagnetic Drive http://www.sciencealert.com/it-s-official-nasa-s-peer-reviewed-em-drive-paper-has-finally-been-published http://www.wired.co.uk/article/emdrive-and-cold-fusion
Pilot Wave Theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot_wave
Phage Therapy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phage_therapy
Nanotechnology and Antibiotic Resistance http://nanoglobal.com/nanotechnology-antibiotic-resistance/
Biofilms http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/biotech/newsid=39217.php
People setting other people on fire
A bank in Melbourne and the plight of the Rohingya
RIP (aka Things Coming to an End ... aka The End Times)
Peter Sumner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Sumner
NEWS
Weather and Climate
"Thunderstorm asthma" https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/nov/22/melbourne-hit-by-thunderstorm-and-asthma-spike-after-day-of-extreme-heat
The Nation's Capital
Dutton and Lebanese-Australian Muslims. Truth, unity, harmony and what it is to be Australian. Alternatively some other bullshit from Dutton.
Nationals and Guns
Rodney Culleton and Bob Day
Is it time for Keating to shut up? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/21/its-time-for-paul-keating-to-zip-it
How about a just transition plan ... https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/21/port-augusta-can-show-the-world-what-just-transition-for-workers-looks-like
Rumtown Gazette
Naplan and the HSC https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/22/the-pressure-on-kids-is-absurd-and-a-new-naplan-rule-is-about-to-make-it-worse
Final results are in for the Orange by-election https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/nov/21/shooters-party-wins-orange-byelection-by-50-votes-from-nationals
Bananaland
Qld LNP 'very very mediocre' https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/nov/21/george-brandis-says-one-nation-could-win-multiple-seats-from-mediocre-lnp
Land clearing karmic consequences https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/nov/21/twice-bitten-outback-workers-near-deadly-double-whammy-with-venomous-snakes
Schoolies
Shooting crocs https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/nov/21/liberal-national-party-at-odds-with-its-own-mps-over-queensland-crocodile-cull
SPORT
Commonwealth Games
Queenies Baton unveiled http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-20/queens-baton-unveiled-2018-commonwealth-games/8037826
Cricket
The axe done swung, the Saffies are cheats and ruffians. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-22/how-does-faf-du-plessis-ball-tampering-punishment-stack-up/8045110 http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-21/south-africa-staffer-shunts-channel-nine-reporter-in-adelaide/8042634
MISC
World Government of World Citizens http://www.worldservice.org/ http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-22/rapper-mos-def-allowed-to-leave-south-africa-after-apology/8048544