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For the July issue of Popular Science, we—the Office for Creative Research—created a data visualization celebrating NASA’s long history of aerospace innovation. Since 1959, NASA has published a document called “Astronautics & Aeronautics Chronology” nearly every year, compiling news coverage of science, technology, and policy at the agency. In these compilations, NASA is reporting its own history.

Morrison called ‘surrender monkeys’ those like Sarah Hanson Young who did not want, like him, to put fifty children on Nauru for eighty or ninety years and never let them leave it — to get an education, or a job, or a spouse, or visit relatives in India. He put them in the meantime into a desert concentration camp, soon to close, and wouldn’t let them see their lawyers, and called a ‘stunt’ Hanson Young’s plan to visit them and ask how they were doing.

From the AFR today, Massey University’s director of the centre for financial services and markets, associate banking professor David Tripe reckons on New Zealand macroprudential that: “I think the RBA can be a little more sensitive to public opinion; in fact the RBNZ can strike you as singularly insensitive,” he said. “Every time you intervene […]

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Liddell Hart, the famous historian and warfare theorist, maintained that all great military victories were won by one thing: the indirect approach.Although Hart's analysis is a little light, he's is right about one thing.

The best path between two points isn't always a straight line and in warfare, it never is.  

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More proof that when Tony Abbott promised Work Choices, it's dead, it's buried, it's cremated now and forever he was lying?The Liberal-Nationals Coalition Government widens its political moves against unions ahead of final consideration of the Fair Work Amendment Bill 2014  and

Ask your local and federal Parliamentarians to sign this statement from Australian MPs in support of  Gaza.

[Signatures are still being added.The latest update of signatures - see below -  was at 8pm 28/7/2014.]

We the undersigned members of Australian federal and state parliaments, call on all Australian politicians to condemn the ongoing Israeli military bombardment and invasion of Gaza.We call on Australian politicians to support an immediate cessation of hostilities and a ceasefire deal which includes an end to Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories and to the blockade of Gaza.

Stephen Murray tweets that the fortnightly Newspoll in tomorrow’s Australian shows no change on two-party preferred, with Labor maintaining its lead of 54-46, and next to no change on the primary vote, with the Coalition steady on 36%, Labor down one to 36%, the Greens up one to 12% and others steady on 16%. However, Tony Abbott is up five on approval to 36% and down seven on disapproval to 53%, and has drawn level on preferred prime minister at 38-38 after Bill Shorten led 41-36 a fortnight ago. Bill Shorten’s personal ratings are also improved, his approval up four to 38% and disapproval down two to 41%.

Most voters probably will never know the story of the lost dictaphone machine so the impact on the Victorian political future will be near enough to zilch. Which is a pity really. For the lesson that should be learned is that operatives on both sides of politics are unethical grubs. Anyone interested in honesty in politics would avoid Labor and Liberal like the plague.

Is Gaza a crime scene?

What’s to fear in India? Bride burning? A mere bagatelle. Being raped and hung from a tree? A walk in the park. Two hundred million young men competing for your job? What a wuss you are. Life in misery? Join the club. Sleeping in the street? Boo hoo.

Get real. Toughen up. Take your medicine. Go home.

You’re lucky I didn’t send you home to Sri Lanka. I’ve sent hundreds. Not all of them are dead. Not all of them are dead.

But they learned their lesson.

Stan Shamu for Chris Weston, Chief Market Strategist at IG Markets Asian markets are off to a fairly good start to the week, despite some soft leads from US trade. While the economic calendar is relatively quiet today, it seems China has taken on the jump in industrial profits and run with it. There have also […]

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This week in Australia 157 reminders of an Abbott government failure arrive in Australia.

These reminders are not just policy failures, they also represent failures of human decency that have brought shame on Australia worldwide.