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Your Smartphone is a Parasite

Your Smartphone is a Parasite

Rachael L. Brown, Australian National University and Rob Brooks, UNSW Sydney Head lice, fleas and tapeworms have been humanity’s companions throughout our evolutionary history. Yet, the greatest parasite of the modern age is no blood-sucking invertebrate. It is sleek, glass-fronted and addictive by design. Its host? Every human on Earth with a wifi ...
The Long Drive

The Long Drive

Michael Gray Griffith There is so much space out here. It’s like the gods left before they were able to add the mountains and valleys and grand forests. You could hide an entire civilization out here. We did, and they are still lost. On the beaches near Eucla, which you have to climb down cliffs to reach, you can find the mounds of broken shellfish ...
The Deep State Goes Viral: Foreword

The Deep State Goes Viral: Foreword

By Jeffrey Tucker: Brownstone Institute t was about a month into lockdowns, April 2020, and my phone rang with an unusual number. I picked up and the caller identified himself as Rajeev Venkayya, a name I knew from my writings on the 2005 pandemic scare. Now the head of a vaccine company, he once served as Special Assistant to the President for ...
Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency AHPRA: Public Health Watchdog, Big Pharma Lapdog, or Drug Enabler

Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency AHPRA: Public Health Watchdog, Big Pharma Lapdog, or Drug Enabler

Professor Ramesh Thakur: Brownstone Institute A Doctor Dies by Suicide Mei-Khing Loo is a former practice manager whose 43-year-old obstetrician-gynaecologist husband of 21 years, Dr Yen-Yung Yap, died by suicide in 2020 while under investigation by the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA). He left behind three young children. ...
Antarctica has a huge, completely hidden mountain range. New data reveals its birth over 500 million years ago

Antarctica has a huge, completely hidden mountain range. New data reveals its birth over 500 million years ago

Jacqueline Halpin, University of Tasmania and Nathan R. Daczko, Macquarie University Have you ever imagined what Antarctica looks like beneath its thick blanket of ice? Hidden below are rugged mountains, valleys, hills and plains. Some peaks, like the towering Transantarctic Mountains, rise above the ice. But others, like the mysterious and ...
The Deep State Goes Viral: The Interview

The Deep State Goes Viral: The Interview

From Dystopian Down Under Rebekah Barnett, one of Australia’s best journalists, interviews Debbie Lerman, one of the world’s best researchers, on what really happened during Covid. What if the pandemic response was run by national security agencies according to a biodefense/counterterrorism playbook, rather than by public health agencies ...
‘The Boy-Girl’, a crime journalist and a Black activist – meet the radical ratbags of 19th-century Melbourne

‘The Boy-Girl’, a crime journalist and a Black activist – meet the radical ratbags of 19th-century Melbourne

By Lucy Sussex, La Trobe University “The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there,” wrote English author L.P. Hartley in The Go-Between (1953). Modern Melburnians may feel the same. But while they live with an increasing cityscape of skyscrapers, the past is not far away. Consider Scots Church in Collins Street. Its spire tip ...

Your Smartphone is a Parasite

Your Smartphone is a Parasite
Rachael L. Brown, Australian National University and Rob Brooks, UNSW Sydney Head lice, fleas and tapeworms have been humanity’s companions throughout our evolutionary history. Yet, the greatest parasite of the modern age is no blood-sucking invertebrate. It is sleek, glass-fronted and addictive by design. Its host? Every human on Earth with a wifi ...

The Long Drive

The Long Drive
Michael Gray Griffith There is so much space out here. It’s like the gods left before they were able to add the mountains and valleys and grand forests. You could hide an entire civilization out here. We did, and they are still lost. On the beaches near Eucla, which you have to climb down cliffs to reach, you can find the mounds of broken shellfish ...

The Deep State Goes Viral: Foreword

The Deep State Goes Viral: Foreword
By Jeffrey Tucker: Brownstone Institute t was about a month into lockdowns, April 2020, and my phone rang with an unusual number. I picked up and the caller identified himself as Rajeev Venkayya, a name I knew from my writings on the 2005 pandemic scare. Now the head of a vaccine company, he once served as Special Assistant to the President for ...

Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency AHPRA: Public Health Watchdog, Big Pharma Lapdog, or Drug Enabler

Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency AHPRA: Public Health Watchdog, Big Pharma Lapdog, or Drug Enabler
Professor Ramesh Thakur: Brownstone Institute A Doctor Dies by Suicide Mei-Khing Loo is a former practice manager whose 43-year-old obstetrician-gynaecologist husband of 21 years, Dr Yen-Yung Yap, died by suicide in 2020 while under investigation by the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA). He left behind three young children. ...

Antarctica has a huge, completely hidden mountain range. New data reveals its birth over 500 million years ago

Antarctica has a huge, completely hidden mountain range. New data reveals its birth over 500 million years ago
Jacqueline Halpin, University of Tasmania and Nathan R. Daczko, Macquarie University Have you ever imagined what Antarctica looks like beneath its thick blanket of ice? Hidden below are rugged mountains, valleys, hills and plains. Some peaks, like the towering Transantarctic Mountains, rise above the ice. But others, like the mysterious and ...

The Deep State Goes Viral: The Interview

The Deep State Goes Viral: The Interview
From Dystopian Down Under Rebekah Barnett, one of Australia’s best journalists, interviews Debbie Lerman, one of the world’s best researchers, on what really happened during Covid. What if the pandemic response was run by national security agencies according to a biodefense/counterterrorism playbook, rather than by public health agencies ...

‘The Boy-Girl’, a crime journalist and a Black activist – meet the radical ratbags of 19th-century Melbourne

‘The Boy-Girl’, a crime journalist and a Black activist – meet the radical ratbags of 19th-century Melbourne
By Lucy Sussex, La Trobe University “The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there,” wrote English author L.P. Hartley in The Go-Between (1953). Modern Melburnians may feel the same. But while they live with an increasing cityscape of skyscrapers, the past is not far away. Consider Scots Church in Collins Street. Its spire tip ...