The Journal
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Top 20 Highest Grossing Films
An interesting list of the top money-making films. Avatar has made it into the top ten in just two weeks. This makes two films by James Cameron in the top ten – Avatar and Titanic. Of…
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Diocese of The Murray
We arrived home in SA on Saturday night. Before church the next morning, we went to McDonalds for breakfast (Well why not? – It is cheap and convenient, they make good coffee, and the hot cakes aren’t bad)…
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OK, I Was Wrong
Finally, proof of global warming: But then, what about this: A new study shows no change in the proportion of atmospheric and absorbed CO2 for the last 150 years. Many climate models also assume that the…
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Sometimes Intolerance Is A Good Thing
There’s no reason why we should tolerate litter, or domestic violence, or falsification of scientific data, for example. What do we need to tolerate to be a civilised society? What do we need to refuse to…
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Adapting to Climate Change
Climate changes all the time. How do we adapt to these changes in a way that assists the most vulnerable – that is, the poor? One way is to adopt policies which will assist poorer people…
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More Advice For Tiger
via Hyscience Tiger Woods will recover as a golfer. Can he recover as a person? Brit Hume says it depends on his faith – what he needs is forgiveness and redemption. Brit’s answer: Think about what the…
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Best Australian Blog
Qohel is certainly not the most popular Australian blog – that honour goes without question to Andrew Bolt. But the best Australian blog? I had a very kind note from a reader saying she thought so. I’d…
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Happy New Year
May 2010 bring you good times, good health, peace and prosperity. This will be the last post for two days – I will be travelling back from Geraldton to Adelaide tomorrow, then Adelaide to Kangaroo Island…
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Global Warming – A Guide
Click to download the Easy Guide to the Politics and Science of Global Warming It is a PDF file just over 1MB in size. Feel free to copy, give to friends, post to politicians, etc!
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Get Your Global Cooling Here
One of the worrying things about the cherry-picking, data fudging, distorting, lying, fund-grabbing behaviour that has characterised global warming alarmism over the last two decades, is that we now have no idea at all what the…
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DSSO (Decadal Science Scare Oscillation) Winner
After considering a number of possible candidates for the next major science scare, the UN today annouced the winner was the asteroid Apophis. ‘We’ve got as much funding, and as many free holidays, as we are…
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The Goresicle
In honour of former vice-president Gore, Qohel is pleased to announce a new literary form, the goresicle. The goresicle is a short poem of ten lines or less. It has lines that do not scan, and…
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Growing New Teeth
Another worthwhile therapeutic result from adult stem cells. Useful applications from embryonic stems cells – 0. From non-destructive, ethical stem cell research, over 70, as at 2007. Researchers have used stems cells taken from mice to create…
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When Is A Child A Person?
There were widespread reports yesterday that the death of an unborn child had brought Victoria’s Christmas road death toll to 12. Quite right. The child was a person, and its death is a tragic loss. But…
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Rudd – No One Got a Special Deal
Indonesia – Give These People the Same Special Deal People Smugglers – Hear, hear! Failing to acknowledge the crisis caused by its changes to Australia’s immigration policy, the Federal government is steadily digging itself into a…
