Slate argues that internet porn prevents rape:
Similarly, psychologists have found that male subjects, immediately after watching pornography, are more likely to express misogynistic attitudes. But as professor Kendall points out, we need to be clear on what those experiments are testing: They are testing the effects of watching pornography in a controlled laboratory setting under [...]
Communications Minister Helen Coonan says most Australians are happy with the speed of their broadband connections.
And why shouldn’t they be? The fact that the rest of the world lives in brick houses with air conditioning has never worried Congolese Pygmies. Why should the fact that our broadband service is the worst in the developed world [...]
It seems that tropical cyclones are the least of worries for banana lovers everywhere (and anyone who is worried about Australia’s banana-led inflation woes).
The current dominant banana variety - Cavendish, is the successor to the original dessert banana, the Gros Michel banana, a strain that was all but wiped out by fungal diseases in the [...]
Today’s Australian has a photo gallery of SpaceShipOne’s launch on Monday.
Regular Samizdata contributor Dale Amon has a series of posts presenting an insider’s view of the world’s first privately developed Spaceship, which entered space for the first time yesterday.
Monday’s flight followed a series of test runs for SpaceShipOne, which is the lead contender in a $10 million race to fly a three-passenger, reusable craft [...]
A fascinating article in Wired on the newest developments in Aquaculture:
“The ocean is full of predictable currents, or gyres,” Goudey says. “If you could get the cage into one of these gyres, it would essentially stay in the same place, or at least have a predictable trajectory. Even if you had just a slight ability [...]
For all of you who have been tormented by the “Irish Virus“, never fear:
The Irish Virus is a hoax and it should be ignored. The following is a sample of the hoax message:
Greetings, You have just received the “IRISH VIRUS”. As we don’t have any programming experience, this Virus works on the honour system. Please [...]
>From Aaron Oakley comes this link to an essay by Greenpeace founder Patrick Moore. Moore details the effects of allowing anti-humanist luddites to have too much input into the GM debate:
The case of “Golden Rice” provides a clear illustration of this. Hundreds of millions of people in Asia and Africa suffer from Vitamin A deficiency. [...]
The real reason behind Bush’s new space program is HERE!
Stew Kelly still reads Pravda:
When I get my broadband connection……which will be any month now, I’ll be able to download stuff like the Mozilla Firebird internet browser, which by all (well, some) accounts craps all over IE.
Downloaded it, installed it, uninstalled it. Mozilla, like it’s fellow traveller Netscape, doesn’t support javascript properly and doesn’t [...]
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