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25.01.2022 2013 report predicts train derailment If you replace sleepers without lifting the rails, things will go wrong. Now they have

25.01.2022 I had the honour and the privilege last week ...

24.01.2022 Eric Abetz bemoaned this week the hegemony of the left wing press he must mean Rupert, surely in running down the Christian Right while failing to name, let alone declare its alliance with, the Secular Left. It is time he said, quoting from his Climate Denier’s handbook, that the press put both sides of the debate. I dispute his binary analysis, but he is entitled to his 15 minutes of fame like the rest of us. [ 638 more words ] https://thegenerator.news/the-vatican-needs-thought-leaders/

24.01.2022 The future is already here, it just not evenly distributed My social media feed is full of people desperately wondering why governments have responded to the spread of CoViD19 caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus in a reasonably urgent and coordinated manner over days and weeks but have actively opposed action on Climate Change over decades. Of course, the content of one’s feed tells us more about the [ 3,310 more words ] https://thegenerator.com.au/sars-cov-2-as-our-crystal-ball/

23.01.2022 The Hammer and the Dance - managing Corona If you are actually interested in the public policy surrounding the decisions around the Corona virus, this article is thoroughly researched and incredibly informative. As always the devil is in the detail. The primary consideration is what is different about Singapore and South Korea compared to Italy and Spain? https://lnkd.in/gtfiCf4 ... #coronavirus #hammerdance #closetheschools #closeschools #schoolclosure #pandemic #slowdown

22.01.2022 My piece on the SARS-CoV-2 as a crystal ball has been picked up by Post Growth. https://lnkd.in/gUA7KcH #coronovirus #sarscov2 #covid19 #globalheating #climatechaos #postgrowth

20.01.2022 Biggest march in my ten years in Brisbane.

18.01.2022 Out with Sax-Coburg-Gotha - Radical Republicanism is one way to swiftly rectify a fundamental injustice perpetrated on our First Nation people. https://thegenerator.news/out-with-sax-coburg-gotha/

17.01.2022 Charles Koch's Good Profit is an interesting justification for this. https://www.smithsonianmag.com//meet-the-money-behind-th/

13.01.2022 Got a ruler, a pencil and a piece of paper? You have everything you need to delve into the fascinating world of tessellation with pentagons. Cairo Tiling is a fascinating pattern named after some street pavers in the Egyptian city and part of a fascinating set of space-filling Pentagons that has been the subject of research by mathematicians and amateurs over the last century. [ 453 more words ] https://thegenerator.news/cairo-tiling-with-no-math/

13.01.2022 A walk with Jem Bendell. "People come to XR because of fear but stay because of love." Perhaps the most important message of 2019.

08.01.2022 Save the Wilderness: synthesise everything Two highly contrasting views of our relationship with nature emerged at last night’s Circular Economy Meetup at the P...recinct in Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley. Founder of GreenKPI, Johanna Kloot, painted a picture of the circular economy as recognising that all our resources come from the land, everything you have eaten, worn or used today is a product of the environment. The economy is simply the conduit that carried that resource to you. Professor of Microbial Technology at QUT, Rob Speight, outlined the production of synthetic leathers, meats and fibres using genetically engineered microbes as a means we might employ to take the pressure off agriculture and reduce its enormous contribution to global warming and the ensuing climate chaos. He described a synthetic hamburger that bleeds, ensuring a genuine taste experience thanks to genetically modified yeast that can produce heme, the haemoglobin component that gives blood, and therefore meat, its unique quality that plant based patties do not provide. Professor Speight conducts research into dissolving natural fibres so that we might recover the valuable plastics in mixed fibre clothing. 90% of the world’s textiles involve a mixture of cotton an polyester (wool polyester blends make up around 1%) but it cannot easily be recycled using existing technologies because the cotton and polyester fibres are intricately woven together. Using digestive enzymes the team at QUT can remove the natural fibres allowing the polyester to be recovered for remanufacture. He began his research journey investigating the problem of removing dags from cattle before slaughter. He said that feedlot cattle carry around 40kilograms of manure, dirt and urine caked into their hair which has set like concrete and requires up to ten hours of high pressure washing to remove before the animal can be cleanly slaughtered. The QUT research into digestive enzymes allows the cow to be shampooed so that the dags can be removed much more quickly. We don’t want the solution to be too strong, no-one wants a bald cow, he quipped. Some members of the audience wondered if simply transitioning from red meat or, at least from red-meat produced in feedlots, might not be an easier solution, preferring Johanna Kloot’s approach of learning to live in harmony with nature. Professor Speight noted that red meat earns around 20% of the Queensland economy putting it in a similar category to coal, and environmental disaster on which we rely for our comfortable lifestyles. Great Notions asked both speakers to consider a future in which synthetic production of food, fibres and other materials allowed us to restore some of the biodiversity and reverse the damage done by the industrial harming of animals and land. Might we save the environment by replacing agriculture with a test tube? Johanna Kloot responded with the observation that living in harmony with nature has been the sustainable practice of the oldest living civilisation that has existing on the Australian continent for thousands of generations. The solution is in harmony and respect, rather than control. Professor Speight observed that we need to temper the temptation to synthesise everything for two reasons. First, nature provides unique and complex experiences, such as steak, that we cannot and should not even try to replicate whereas a hamburger uses meat that has been minced beyond recognition and is more environmentally and economically sound to synthesise. Secondly, he noted that we do not understand genes well enough to actually synthesise complex lifeforms. It is very arrogant of humans to think that we can engineer life. We can engineer yeast and algae to create useful fuels and simple materials but the only life form we have completely mapped is a virus with about twenty genes. We really know very little. Host Yasmin Grigaliunas observed a number of times throughout the discussion, hashtag itscomplicated. Once again, we see that this is a very complex topic and there are no simple solutions. Indeed.

04.01.2022 If you are actually interested in the public policy surrounding the decisions around the Corona virus, this article is thoroughly researched and incredibly informative. Target lockdowns and be effective As always the devil is in the detail. The primary consideration is what is different about Singapore and South Korea compared to Italy and Spain? #coronavirus #hammerdance #closetheschools #bendthecurve #bendingthecurve #closeschools #schoolclosure #pandemic #slowdown https://thegenerator.com.au/bend-the-curve-the-hammer-and-/