SUSY where ‘art thou? The University of Melbourne is currently hosting a conference on supersymmetry or SUSY, which is a theory that seeks to address outstanding anomalies in particle physics by positing a new symmetry principle, that is one beyond the standard model, that links fermions (characterised by units of […]
The reregulation of the financial system is often presented as a panacea for financial crises, and the one we are going through most especially. I don’t want to discuss here the details of the inadequate response to the global financial crisis in that regard here, save to note that in […]
Just some quick thoughts on the 2016 Federal Election, which I would hope to return to in a more substantive post later on. The Result. All kinds of speculation exists on this. Most seems to be of the view that a hung parliament or minority Liberal government is most likely. […]
As lefty Australians observed from across the seas with wonderment and joy the Sanders campaign in the United States, and the rise to the Labour leadership of Jeremy Corbyn in the United Kingdom, they increasingly asked in frustration; where are the Australian versions of Corbyn and Sanders? Both Corbyn and […]
In 2001 the then Assistant Secretary of the ACTU released a statement on the position of Australia’s peak union body, the ACTU, regarding globalisation. That statement remains the ACTU’s position on the matter, for it remains on the ACTU website under the masthead of “globalisation and trade unions in Australia.” […]
Richard Feynman, in his splendid lecture series delivered at Cornell University under the title “the character of physical law”, began, as with the University of Auckland lecture series on QED, with discussion on science and the nature of inquiry. His observations were deep and insightful. At Cornell Feynman stated that […]
Slobodan Antonic, Milosevic: Jos Nije Gotovo, (Beograd, Vukotic Media, 2015). I have quite a few books, and I am fond of those that I had purchased and received as gifts in Belgrade and Sarajevo. I hope to review them. One is a book on the former President of Serbia and […]
NATO recently completed a 10 day military exercise, billed as its largest since the end of the cold war, in Poland that involved 30,000 troops from about 24 different countries The exercise is designed to emulate a “joint defensive operation on a large scale,” according to a release by the […]
We often forget that one of the most well known exponents of classical anarchism, the Russian anarchist Peter Kropotkin, founded that intellectual discipline we now call “sociobiology.” This fact is of significance for in his Mutual Aid Kropotkin, an anarchist-communist, sought to refute the prevailing social Darwinist views of his […]
Almost daily one hears of an account of an atrocity conducted by university management at our increasingly corporatised universities. The Guardian today writes of the case of Dr Paul Frijters at the University of Queensland. It would appear that the UQ chancellery acted contrary to the University of Queensland’s own […]
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