A mathematical model of how societies tip into terror reveals that Nineteen Eighty-Four isn’t a portrait of the Soviet Union. It’s a redesign that fixes the flaws that destroyed it. John C. Menzies — Societal Dynamics | CASCADE Model v1.13.0 | May 2026 Everyone knows that Nineteen Eighty-Four is »
Introduction Sleep quality is influenced by various dietary factors, including nutrients that support neurotransmitter synthesis and hormonal regulation. Greek yogurt and flaxseed have been identified as potential aids for improving sleep through their rich profiles of amino acids, minerals and fatty acids. This post examines their roles in sleep enhancement, »
This work reframes Neanderthal demise as multifactorial with ecological pressures and cryptic but insidious genetics and the work bridges evolution, physiology and obstetrics. It posits PIEZO1 as a “speciation gene,” with echoes in modern reproductive health and may explain the scarcity of Neanderthal alleles in fertility-related genes and the absence »
Gunther Kletetschka’s 2025 paper, Three-Dimensional Time: A Mathematical Framework for Fundamental Physics, published in Reports in Advances of Physical Science – simply redefines time! Time is not one-dimensional. It spans three dimensions. This creates a six-dimensional manifold—three temporal, three spatial. The goal? Unify quantum mechanics and gravity. Explain the three »
I have a Acer Predator Helios 300 PH315-52-74PR and recently purchased an MSI PRO MP161 E2 external monitor. The monitor would not power up with mini-HDMI and reported no HDMI data when connected via USB-C. This is not uncommon but there is a simple solution. The key takeaway is that »
By John C. Menzies and Eugene J. LynchApril 4, 2025 On a clear, dark night, far from city lights, the Milky Way Galaxy stretches across the sky like a luminous river of stars, gas, and dust. This glowing band, a partial view of our galaxy’s spiral structure, is a breathtaking »
A Bold First Step Here is a series of edited prompts that will guide you through your mental clutter, explore your darkest fears, delineate your current working habits, your current framework of accountability and define your most important goals. Then you will generate a Bold Action Plan consistent with your »
A new study by Tina Lüdecke and colleagues provides a critical analysis of the dietary habits of Australopithecus at Sterkfontein Cave, challenging long-held assumptions about the role of meat consumption in hominin evolution. The research is based on a novel approach that utilizes nitrogen and carbon isotope analysis of tooth »
An interesting paper in Science by Daniele Bertacca and colleagues discusses a new model for the early universe that challenges the traditional inflationary paradigm, which relies on a hypothetical “inflaton” field. Instead, this model proposes that gravitational waves, arising from quantum fluctuations within an expanding universe, are responsible for creating »
In early writing, words were not separated by spaces, a format known as scriptura continua. Scribes wrote without breaks between words, reflecting the way language was originally spoken. Just as we don’t pause between every word when we speak, early writers didn’t think to insert spaces between words when writing. »
Rajendra Gupta from the University of Ottawa published a paper in the Astrophysical Journal based on a modified Lambda CDM + TL model which suggests an age of the universe since the Big Bang of 26.7 Gyr as compared with the consensus view of 13.8 Gyr. Given that zircon age »
“Subsurface Microbial Colonization at Mineral-Filled Veins in 2-Billion-Year-Old Mafic Rock from the Bushveld Igneous Complex, South Africa,” focuses on the examination of microbial life in ancient igneous rocks from the Bushveld Igneous Complex in South Africa. The study investigates the possibility of long-term microbial survival in stable subsurface environments over »
Emily J. Judd, Jessica E. Tierney, Daniel J. Lunt, Isabel P. Montañez, Brian T. Huber, Scott L. Wing, Paul J. Valdes, Science. DOI: 10.1126/science.adk3705 An interesting approach to palaeo-temperature modelling – produced by assimilating observational data during the last 485 million years with climate model predictions. This paper introduces a »
Authors Pearl Connelly & Lynley Wallis Purchase: Mitakoodi Traditional Medicinal Plant Uses of the Cloncurry Region can be purchased on-line Most photos are the copyright of Pearly Connelly & Lynley Wallis The country around Cloncurry comprises the traditional lands of the Mitakoodi People. In this book, Mitakoodi Elder Pearl Connelly teams »
This post does NOT contains images of deceased Australian Aboriginals – some Australian Aboriginal people find seeing the images and or hearing names of the deceased disturbing as it may disturb that person’s spirit. Australian Aboriginals were hunter gatherers surviving on “Bush Tucker” and photographs of traditional tribal groups in »
WARNING: This post contains images of deceased Australian Aboriginals – some Australian Aboriginal people find seeing the images and or hearing names of the deceased disturbing as it may disturb that person’s spirit. Australian Aboriginals were hunter gatherers surviving on “Bush Tucker” and photographs of traditional tribal groups in the »
This article from the Brisbane Courier of Saturday, December 22nd, 1923, puts our modern world of global and near earth communications in perspective – this was a mere 100 years ago. TELEPHONIC CHAIN. LINKING UP. FOUR STATES CONNECTED. SYDNEY, December 21. There Is now a complete chain of telephone lines »
Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 – 1933), Saturday 1 December 1923, page 19 By A. MESTON. Few people have any knowledge of the vast amount of works, reports, and papers that have been written on the anthropology, ethnology, and geological history of the aboriginals of Australia and Tasmania. Many of »
Queensland’s Early DaysBY C. Duncan LaidleyBrisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 – 1933), Saturday 27 October 1923, page 19 I find it most interesting to read the Brisbane Courier from 100 years ago on a Saturday morning. It brings into stark relief the modern world, that which remains much the same »
I find it most interesting to read the Brisbane Courier from 100 years ago on a Saturday morning. It brings into stark relief the modern world, that which remains much the same and that which has evolved beyond belief in such a short period of time. Here is a transcription »
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The newly released film, “Oppenheimer“, directed by Christopher Nolan, seeks to examine the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer and indeed re-write the history of this pivotal figure in the rapid development of the first atomic weapons. My expectation was that Oppenheimer would dramatize the events surrounding the Manhattan Project and »
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I recently had a chat with the Artificial Intelligence application, ChatGPT. ChatGPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) is a chatbot launched by OpenAI in November 2022. It is built on top of OpenAI’s GPT-3 family of large language models, and is fine-tuned (an approach to transfer learning) with both supervised and reinforcement learning techniques. »
Mapped Arctic sea ice extent (SIE) on 09/02/2020 was 14.69 million km2 which is 270,000 km2 or 1.8% less than the 1979-2019 average. This is largest sea ice extent on this day since 2009 and is within 1 standard deviation of the 1979-2019 mean ice extent. »
Over the last 20 years at least there have been near continuous press reports of the near-term disappearance of the Maldives, a series of coral atolls in the Indian Ocean. The chain of 26 atolls stretches from Ihavandhippolhu Atoll in the north to Addu Atoll in the south with an »
January 11, 2020 Mapped Arctic sea ice extent (SIE) on this date was 13.34 million km2 which is 560,000 km2 or 4% less than the 2008-2018 median. This is largest sea ice extent on this day since 2016 »
Of recent times all the reporting on Australia has been little more than dire warnings and catastrophic coverage. There is however some positive news on the horizon. Australia’s climate is determined in large part by three major atmospheric circulatory systems, the Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) the El Nino – Southern »
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The extent of Arctic sea ice varies from summer to winter. The sea ice extent shown here relies on data from the Multisensor Snow and Ice Mapping System (IMS) that runs at the National Ice Center. The IMS product uses several satellite data sources including passive microwave, but it is »
