Arctic sea ice volume by month in cubic kilometers.  The bottom (black) line is September volume. The plot makes projections with simple quadratic trend lines (details [...more]

I’ve rarely seen the culture wars explained better than by Jeff Sparrow in this piece at The Drum. Sparrow looks at the contradictions between the market agenda of [...more]

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Axed … 11 of 31 positions at the Forest Science Centre are being abolished as part of Barry O’Farrell’s first round of public service job cuts. Photo: David [...more]

Like a moth to a flame, Tony Abbott has now attended and addressed a second convention of the downtrodden, desperate and dispossessed. On Tuesday, Federal Parliament again [...more]