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Who writes history? - 2024 July 21
History is written by the people who care enough to write about it. Or in other words a very small minority of people.
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Our place in the universe - 2024 July 15
What is our connection with the universe?
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Aurora Australis - 2024 June 18
I never expected to see the Aurora Australis from the Australian mainland but I'm glad that I did. I'm also glad that the electrical grid didn't blow up during this severe solar radiation storm.
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Super size me - 20 years later - 2024 June 03
Its been 20 years since the super size me documentary came out and there's some things about it that bothers me now that I think about it again but a few decades later with a lot more knowledge about health and nutrition.
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Lost phrases - Its a free country - 2024 May 28
People used to say "its a free country" a lot more often than they do now.
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Lost techniques - 2024 May 22
As time goes on society loses the ability to do things, techniques that existed in the past get forgotten as time goes on. Many people these days are too ignorant and too distracted to understand that there were things in the past that people knew how to do that people today do not. But if we get complacent many of the things we currently take for granted will themselves be lost.
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Punt Creek - 2024 May 20
There's an area in inner city Melbourne that used to be a creek which has since been filled in. I found out about this after having my work get substantially disrupted by geological/hydrological drilling works.
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Lost phrases - space cadet - 2024 May 19
The phrase "space cadet" is used a lot less now than it was before.
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Lost phrases - 2024 May 18
Some phrases that used to be used frequently no longer see much use.
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GameStop short squeeze part 4 - 2024 May 14
GameStop is the stonk that just keeps on stonking along.
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