Skeptic News
It’s not often we get something for free. However, here is a free SKEPTIC magazine. https://www.skeptics.com.au/wp-content/uploads/magazine/The%20Skeptic%20Volume%2038%20(2018)%20No%201.pdf
Year: 2019
Skeptic news.
Our next meeting of Skeptics will be on monday 20th. I’m looking forward to seeing you there and aim for an interesting and vigorous discussion. In the meantime here is a link to whet the skeptical attitude. https://youtu.be/orSjZaeyISI
Lake Urana – field trip
On 16 May 2019, 26 of us, including our leader Tony Dare-Edwards, went on a field trip to Lake Urana. Lake Urana is 65 km2 in area and is a typical Pleistocene-age, dry lake with similar morphology to Lake Mungo Read more
Aged Care Royal Commission
The following was read out by Ray Mullins from an email. Almost all of the issues in Nursing Homes is due to understaffing. In addition to that care facilities also fail to provide staff the aids. E.g. A specialised day Read more
Biodiversity and extinction
A new report this week describes the global situation. See below for commentary form ‘the Conversation’. Editor’s note A million species are facing extinction, according to a UN report released this week. It’s an eye-catching, heart-squeezing number. But unfortunately, this Read more
Future options
Here are some links to Julian Cribb’s proposals for surviving the future and an interesting list of resources:Julian Cribb on humanity’s big chancehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkYFWS6kmmw On the need for an earth standard currencyhttps://juliancribb.blog/2019/04/15/on-the-need-for-an-earth-standard-currency/ Books by Julian Cribb and a select list of Read more
Skeptics – Democracy
This page is to show information that is of interest to those enrolled in our Skeptics course. We are currently exploring – ‘Death of Democracy’ and ‘Is Political Correctness stifling Freedom of Speech’. Articles of potential interest related to these Read more
Food or War
Food or War is a powerful new science book that examines how humanity can successfully feed itself through the peak in human numbers in a climate-impaired world. Its focus is on food because this issue affects every person on the Read more
Sustainability
There will be no sessions on ‘sustainability- behind the news’ in Term 2 but as you can see many of the topics we have discussed are still hot in the press. For example The Port Augusta 650million dollar solar project Read more