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The Sociopathic Origins of Religion
You’ve all seen variations on this: how ‘Prehistoric Man’ looked up at the stars, asking: “What are they? What causes them to move?” Then a bit later: “Why did my spear miss? Why do my beloved Elders die, and where are they now? And we need a lot of fish in the river today. My …
INFLUENCER SAYS NEWS GETTING REPETITIVE
A recent post by an influencer claims that News is getting repetitive. The internet writer known as “Part-time Genius” claimed, in their most recent post, that he is seeing news articles that are repetitive. “They're getting repetitive” he said in his recent post, “It's almost as if the 'Journalists' of today are using a.i. to …
SELECTIVE ZEBRA BLINDNESS
What has gone wrong with Western Medicine? Whatever happened to Curiosity? Why is it, very consistently throughout the Australian medical system (at least in the corner I've encountered), that highly trained, highly intelligent people are failing to hear their patients presenting their own observations about their own bodies? Is it some sort of professional arrogance? …
Sad Tale but True: I was ‘Cancelled’
Long before it became a buzz-word: that very-successful kids'-writer Ged Maybury was Cancelled by none other than the very same publisher that originally discovered him! .. [DRAMATIC PAUSE] .. And now that I have you hooked, let's name them: Scholastic Australia. (Yup, it's true!!) And I have decided (after 22 years) that I'm finally going …
GED TALKS TED-TALK
This the TED talk I'll never give. WHY IS THAT? Because I have no relevant qualifications. Nor industry-specific reputation. expertise, or experience, that's why. But what the heck, let's begin regardless: "Good evening teachers, parents, prinicpals, heads-of-departments, educators, policy-makers and government ministers. My talk this evening is about the glaring flaw in our current Western-World …
The Slop-Singularity
"Hi, I am your Waymuck Driver.." Today's Thought: Remember that daft pronouncement a few years back? That Humanity would soon reach a particular "Singularity"? It was in 2005 - a book by futurist Ray Kurzwei. Whatever a "futurist" is. We've had a aweful lot of them, going back over 100 years. Could be said that most …
Old King Coal still has a job to do in Australia (sort-of)
So here's the idea right up front: Retro-fit Old Power Stations as INERTIA-WHEEL Rapid-Response Grid-Stabilisation (and Storage). Huzzah! We are finally shutting down Big Bad Coal. Well: in some Countries (“Yay, Good onya, Britain!”) but elsewhere there has been some annoying resistance from certain Busy-body Billionaires who want to continue wreaking the planet for the …
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Pill-Trays. A cranky-old-man Rant
Pills. They come in 'blister-packs' these days. - Meh, it's a system. Wasteful, but that's not my beef. My beef is this: on the flat side they write stuff: trade name, medication, dosage, active ingredient, etc. But take note of this: When you're scrambling through your medications looking for a particular thing, and say that …
We need Intelligent Traffic Lights, NOT Self-driving cars!
A SUGGESTION TO IMPROVE TRAFFIC FLOWS IN REALTIME - VIA REMOTE CONTROL OF EXISTING TRAFFIC-SIGNALS. [SENT TO MY LOCAL AUTHORITY] "I can sit at home and watch traffic densites, congestion, and even the effectiveness (or failure) of signal-controlled intersections anywhere in my city. The 'app' is called Google Maps with the 'Traffic' option enabled. ANYONE …
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Are You Dysdexterous?
<Lisa-Simpson-Voice> "That's not a word!" Yeah, you're right. The word doesn't exist. ... YET! But maybe it should exist. Maybe there is a massive blind-spot in the DSM. Maybe in fact the blind spot I'm talking about is in the minds and codes and collective professional gestalt of the entire medical profession - especially the …
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