Coal is the great danger as 'peak oil' approaches, scientist warns.. The most important question about peak oil - and the largest source of uncertainty in climate models - is whether the end of oil will usher in a century of coal. [Environmental Health News]
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Disney Cartoon Mashup Explains Copyright Law. A Stanford University documentary film project, A Fair(y) Use Tale, weaves snippets of classic animated films into a short short in which Disney characters explain the basics of fair use and argue against longer copyrights. [Wired Top Stories]
Oil prices fall. WORLD oil prices dropped heavily overnight on news that US stockpiles of distillates had fallen lower than expected last week. [Herald Sun | Breaking News]
Bipolar nation: how to win the 2007 election. It took Labor a decade to realise that, in abandoning Keating, it had also surrendered its claim to the prosperity he had bequeathed Australia. By editor@onlineopinion.com.au (Peter Hartcher). [On Line Opinion - Latest Articles]
Carbon trading planned with US, China. Ballarat.yourguide.com.au - Sat May 19, 03:01 am GMT [News4Sites - Australia Economy]
Cash or culture?. Farrah Tomazin has an interesting piece in today’s Age on strategies to improve the performance of Indigenous children in Victorian schools, identifying a divide between those who say ‘change the school culture’ and those who say ’spend more money’. [Andrew Leigh]
Garnaut on the White Paper. The news is reporting that Ross Garnaut has savaged the Government’s White Paper on Climate Change Policy. For instance, from ABC news: Professor Garnaut says the Rudd government is aiming too low in its unconditional target of a 5 per cent emissions cut by 2020 and the policy announced this week will put the economy…
Apple store update Really long time readers might recall that perhaps my first blog post ever was about the Apple store. Here's an update, five years later: I spent an hour or two on Saturday at the Soho store. The obvious difference, other than how incredibly jammed it was, was who was there. Couples.Fashionistas.Women. …
Lower income suburbs hit by bankruptcies. Au.news.yahoo.com - Wed Feb 14, 04:00 pm GMT [News4Sites - Australia Economy]