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Australian National Curriculum Review
I have (finally) added a page with a copy of my late-night submission to the review of the so-called Australian National Curriculum. I say ‘so-called’, as there is, of course, no such thing, nor should there be! For ease of reference, the page is on my main fourhares site: Australian National Curriculum Review (a pdf…
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A most astounding pen…
I must admit that I find many pens a little lacking – but this one has all the qualities that I would rejoice in using: the Pelikan M101N Jubilee Pen… otherwise referred to as the lizard pattern.
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Two US-based conferences…
Here are two conferences to which, each year, I look to and, as usual, am unable to participate… this year precisely a month apart. Semiotic Society of America The annual conference of the Semiotic Society of America taking place, this year, in Seattle between the 2nd and 5th of October: RunRev’s LiveCode 2014 The other…
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On the hope of the incoming Federal Senate
It’s been a long time coming, but there appears to be some light at the end of the tunnel – a long tunnel made all the darker during the last few years with the Rudd-Gillard-Rudd government. That they managed to not only erode personal freedoms and expand government bureaucracies to the extent they did shows…
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forecasting the new Pope
There will no doubt be numerous conflicting predictions as to who is likely to be elected our next Pope. Back prior to the election of Benedict XVI, I forecast the wrong individual (I thought he did not have much of a chance) but correctly predicted the name he was to adopt (Benedict). Papal name Of…
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It ain’t no Arab ‘spring’!
I’ve been rather astounded and amazed that the media has consistently referred to the revolutionary events in various Arabic countries as an ‘Arab spring’. If we look at the consequences of these events and the shifting powers that have resulted, it would be equivalent of having called the Bolshevik, Maoist, and Nazi revolutionary shifts as,…
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Truth, Beauty and the Good
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‘Meet Tarek Fatah’
ideacity on livestream.com. Broadcast Live Free
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Reading the Marseille Tarot
It’s way overdue, and the files on my computer have finally made it to printers (at this stage available only from Lulu.com). This is a tarot book that I originally wrote over the course of a year spanning across 2007-2008, and the isbn is registered as 2009. Since then, the most I have done is…
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Why Children Shouldn’t have the World at their Fingertips
The following originally appeared in Orion Magazine – well worth a read as a counter-balance to the all too common push towards extreme impulses. By Lowell Monke* THOMAS EDISON WAS A GREAT INVENTOR but a lousy prognosticator. When he proclaimed in 1922 that the motion picture would replace textbooks in schools, he began a long…
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