Twenty years of posts on geopolitics, philosophy, media, investing and whatever else has my attention.
My guest today is Adam Shand, investigative journalist / author from Melbourne. He was a guest on #293 discussing his book “Big Shots” which focused on the Melbourne…
On this episode, Chrissy and I chat with our friend Angus Scown (@angusscown) about living on a hippy commune (Angus, his wife and kids live at Crystal Waters,…
I’ve put up a new post on the LOTU blog about why the scientific method is the best way to work out how the world really works. This…
Remember the Mumbai attacks from 26/11/2008? Apparently, it was allegedly planned by an American-Pakistani man called David Headley (born in Washington DC, raised in Pakistan until age 17,…
Iowa State University will take delivery is a partner with NCSA & IBM* in the development of Blue Waters – the world’s first supercomputer to be able to…
I just heard this on Triple J. Awesome song. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgRCpJD3TlQ&hl=en_US&fs=1&]
Keep watching until the 2 minute mark, when she starts to convulse in something similar to an epileptic fit and the boss man has to call an ambulance.…
If you became, not only a superhero, but a world famous superhero whose identity was public knowledge…. And if your superpowers came not from a burst of interstellar…
Late last week, Chrissy and I sat down with Hugo Sharp for a cigar and a chat about the latest news in politics, religion, science and philosophy…. oh…
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rXPrfnU3G0&rel=0&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1] (via Wikileaks, probably the most exciting news operation on the planet at the moment)