As I wrote recently, the draft NZ science curriculum is an embarrassing crock, blatantly designed by the Long Marchers to keep students ignorant and indoctrinated. Hold our soy lattes, say Australian education bureaucrats. The Australian school science curriculum lacks breadth and depth, and provides little guidance to teachers about content,
dailytelegraph.co.nz IN 2032, INDIA WILL NEED A BILLION TONNES OF COAL, PARTLY TO CHARGE EVS IN URBAN AREAS VIA POWER GENERATED BY THERMAL PLANTS. Five Indian cities, including the capital, New Delhi, consistently rank in the world’s top-10 worst air-polluted cities. Vehicular emissions are significant
The late Douglas Adams might well have been thinking of the mainstream media when he described sheep: “they were creatures who learned very little on their journey through life and would be startled to see the sun rising in the morning”. Your average Australian journalist has, in their less-than-
David Gortler Dr David Gortler, a 2023 Brownstone Fellow, is a pharmacologist, pharmacist, research scientist and a former member of the FDA Senior Executive Leadership Team who served as senior advisor to the FDA Commissioner on matters of: FDA regulatory affairs, drug safety and FDA science policy. brownstone.org Celebrities
As BFD readers may recall, I’ve posted several times about the Lost Continent of Zealandia. What is now New Zealand and New Caledonia are the last highlands of Zealandia left poking above the Pacific waters. But there’s another leftover chunk of Gondwana that’s getting in on the
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com The World Health Organisation (WHO) is behind the implementation of amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR), the seriousness of which was recently ignorantly dismissed by Dr Michael Baker. New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science (NZDSOS) have written extensively about
Consensus is, as the saying goes, everyone agreeing on something that none of them really believe. Which is why consensus can too often lead to appallingly bad decision-making. It was the consensus of the Bush cabinet, for instance, that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, and that the
Allen Cheng Professor of Infectious Diseases Epidemiology lens.monash.edu These days, we don’t think much about being able to access a course of antibiotics to head off an infection. But that wasn’t always the case – antibiotics have been available for less than a century. Before that, patients
Logan Chipkin Logan Chipkin is the Managing Editor at Brownstone. He writes about economics, science, history, and freedom and is the author of the fantasy novel, Windfall. brownstone.org At Brownstone’s third annual conference and gala, aptly called ‘Rebuild Freedom’, hundreds of scholars, writers, researchers, fellows, and supporters came
In recent posts, I’ve explored humans’ ancient fascinations with putting dicks on things, and fart jokes. But there’s another widespread ancient practice that’s both weirder and a whole lot more painful than dicks and farts. Or maybe not, depending on what you do with both, I guess.
Sir Mark Oliphant has long been a darling of the Australian left. Not only was he a pioneering nuclear physicist, but he was also tacitly blackballed by the Americans and the Menzies government in the 50s (call it an early form of shadowbanning). Nothing was more calculated to endear someone
Cosmic horror writer H. P. Lovecraft was a lifelong atheist who espoused what he called a “Cosmic” perspective on life. From the viewpoint of an infinite universe, all of mankind’s worries, glories, strivings and achievements were utterly insignificant. Far from depressing, he argued, it was in reality a comforting
When I studied university science, we were given a checklist of “How to spot a pseudo-science.” What’s passed off by the media-political elite as ‘climate science’ ticked nearly every box, from Resisting Change and Professing Certainty, to Making Exaggerated Claims and Claiming a Conspiracy Against Them. The
Robin Kramer University of Lincoln theconversation.com For a while, limitations in technology meant that animators and researchers were only capable of creating human-like faces which seemed a little “off”. Films like 2004’s The Polar Express made some viewers uneasy because the characters’ faces looked almost human but
David Brady, Jr David Brady is a Catholic libertarian and economics and finance undergraduate student at Florida Southern College. He is a co-host of the “Econphonics” podcast and a Mises Apprentice. mises.org In light of Nobel Prizes being given to two researchers of mRNA Covid-19 vaccinations, beltway
In the movie Zoolander, male model Derek Zoolander (Ben Stiller) famously has a repertoire of a whole three looks. Turns out that Zoolander’s about one-hundredth as expressive as your pet cat. Cats, according to a recent study, have nearly 300 different facial expressions. Surprisingly, not all of them
