Stuffthatcounts

As a vegan, I was a little miffed at not being tagged by Michael McCormack’s inner city latte sipper comment; but I’m guessing he has an...

Asian Renewable Energy Hub ... blocked (for now). Who remembers Kelly's Bush? You probably need to have been alive in the 1970s in Sydney...

I wrote an article in New Matilda a while back taking Simon Holmes à Court (SHAC) to task for using maps to mislead people. Maps can...

Virtual power plants (VPP) get quite a lot of press from time to time. These consist of a battery of batteries under software control...

"Private security contractors" ... who made the decision? Did Daniel Andrews know about it? Australian media has been in a feeding frenzy...

If you follow the various high profile 100% renewable energy advocates, Mike Cannon-Brooks, Simon Holmes a Court and anybody in the...

It's a terrible thing when people misuse statistics, because it gives the whole field a bad name. It feeds the anti-science cover-story...

In the lead up to my sister's death in 2018, we had a number of traumatic conversations about hope and lies. "Why do doctors have to...

Public transport and rooftop solar panels. Is there a connection? Everybody loves public transport ... as an idea. Everybody understands...

I'm not at all sure about writing anything about those afraid of 5G. Will anybody worried about 5G actually read or care about what I or...

Nobody opposes the soap industry because it may lead to chemical weapons. Nobody opposes vaccination because it may lead to biological...

Kirk Smith died on the 15th of June of a heart attack and stroke. The stream of emails I'd been getting from him since 2008 had gone...

The New York Times at the moment has a daily table of Covid-19 cases and deaths in every US state. Here's the top five today (June 19th)...

The Advertiser today featured Tory Shepherd at the top of the page taking on racists pretending to be protectors of free speech and...

Natasha Mitchell's Science Friction is often worth listening to, but I generally only listen to the podcasts, so I can be quite a bit...

Jeff Gibbs and Michael Moore have been finding out what it's like to throw a sacred cow onto a BBQ with their documentary Planet of the...

Jeff Gibbs and Michael Moore didn't say much about LNG (liquified natural gas) in their inconvenient documentary Planet of the Humans....

Putting Michael Moore's name on a documentary guarantees it will get an audience. And Jeff Gibbs's documentary Planet of the Humans, is...

There have been a number of viruses which have jumped from animals to humans during the past 30 years, here are some of the more famous...