I wrote a long and fairly bitter rant yesterday about the CSIRO’s Total Wellbeing Diet. But my dinosaur work PC crashed (again!) before I managed to save it. So I’ll just rework the highlights here:
The CSIRO, Australia’s premiere research organisation, recently published what they have called “the new scientifically proven diet for Australians”. This research […]

Saw the latest Lucasaid film last night. I’ll write my own review this time.
I’m surprised that so many people have reviewed this film favourably. I know the bar has been set abominably low by the previous two offerings, but this is still a piece of bland, wooden, eye-candy (and the candy ain’t even that sweet). […]

“They Don’t Call It The Curse For Nothing”
Why didn’t this get a mainstream cinema release? Maybe it had something to do with the fact that it seems aimed at 15-16 year old girls, yet openly embraces themes such as death, suicide, drug-use, sex, and of course rather graphic violence.

I’ve been a bit slack with the movie reviews of late. Here’s a few 2 line reviews, which will be followed by a more thorough review of Ginger Snaps (2000), a real gem of a horror film.

The issue of “trust” has recently hit the ActKM discussion group. This is an issue that interests me greatly, as I’m convinced that any truely useful approach to KM must incorporate a rich understanding of trust. Trust is also of key importance for social epistemology, and my current work is looking at applying social epistemology […]

Ok. There are many subjects that we legitimately have the philosophy of. There is the philosophy of mind, biology, science, religion, history, medicine, technology, art, politics, law, economics … pretty much any academic discipline.
We’ve also been confronted with the philosophy of Star Trek, The Matrix, The Simpsons, Seinfeld, Buffy, Star Wars, Superheros, Harry […]

I think this may amuse those of you who’ve delved into a bit of Social Network Analysis, and have a fondness for that odd cultural icon, the Eurovision Song Contest.
A group of physicists have published a paper titled “How does Europe Make Its Mind Up? Connections, cliques, and compatibility between countries in the Eurovision Song […]

I can believe that there are some academics out there who would defend torture. What I find more difficult to accept is the willingness of the media to pick up this work, to give it widespread publicity, and turn the authors into minor celebrities.
Also, I wonder why it is that the appalling views of the […]

D&D readers, especially those who have been physically around Monash University SIMS in recent years, may be interested in the intellectual re-emergence of Bill Hall in the Philosophy of Biology blog.
His first post there is Introducing a Biological Theory of Knowledge.
In case you’ve lost track of what Bill is up to, here is what he […]

Brett at …no straight lines… seemed a little flummoxed by something I wrote last week about defining knowledge:
Part of the problem, I think, is that there really is no general agreement on what Knowledge Management actually is. And since one’s definition of knowledge really depends upon one’s definition of KM the knowledge question won’t […]