Marco's Blog

Back in 1992 I was playing a round of golf with "The Groose" and Andrewww. I asked them where they wanted to be in ten years time....

Still doing more Comments on Economist.com than my usual blog sphere of reading. Subjects of interest include: China Iraq green taxes super...

In response to Dr.Clam's suggestion to eat more whale This should really be a real ad for the real product that ought to be offered in A...

There are numerous "experts" talking up the price of oil. Like at the end of the Dot.com boom, I believe this is a technique to gi...

Clam's narrative in italics Let us begin with the way the world was twenty-five years ago. It was in the last years of a titanic struggl...

This is a counter-narrative that I'd kind of given up on when the build up to the Iraq war started back in 02, but on reflection, I thin...

Finally the government has announced an increase of unskilled migrants increasing our overall intake to 300,000. Hopefully that will includ...

In response to: Doctor Clam's elegant intellectual take on attitudes to war in Mesopotamia Who is after an alternate intellectual narrat...

Does this link to Economist articles with comments! work? It feels like sending a letter to the editor and always being published!

On Sunday, September 24, 2006 I wrote "I am confidently predicting that on this day in 2008, the price of petrol will be under $1.00 Au...

Mostly Harmless Science Blog: Googling Professor Ronald Laura?

When raising children, there is so many competing obsessions related to the child's well being that it really is a minefield. eg: Food h...

(lame peak oil satire) Peak Food is the point in time when the maximum rate of global food production is reached, after which the rate of ...

The US election stuff bores me to tears, and I have no interesting opinion about the candidates. I was going to talk about the local council...

(24/3/08) I have just come back from the Brass Band Championships held in Brisbane over Easter. The euphoria of winning the street march, so...

When I was young but starting to control my own food choices, I used to have a great time teasing my mother by choosing foods with artificia...

I believe strongly in the development of evolutionary science, and I have new hypotheses that ought to be tested that don't contradict a...

There are clearly other biological hypotheses that have somehow graduated to the orthodoxy, such as Earthly abiogenesis . The hypothesis tha...

My research on modern ideas on Lamarckism has led me to Edward Steele , a controversial Australian Molecular immunologist. He has (indirectl...

I am not sure whether to use this blog to state what I believe the scientific truth to be, or whether to methodically and scientifically (wi...