By - Saturday, July 25th, 2020
In June I was asked to step up as organizer of the Government Blockchain Association – Sydney Chapter as the previous organizer has stepped down. Government Blockchain Association – Sydney Chapter is a large Group, many of whose members are also members of other Blockchain Groups. I wrote to the organisers of some of those […]
By Ted Smillie - Saturday, June 27th, 2020
Yes, collectors are still revisiting, and sharing, some of their favourite old films Here are some links to films from the old days to more recent
By Ted Smillie - Saturday, June 27th, 2020
“The finest eloquence is that which gets things done; the worst is that which delays them.
Don’t be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.”
These quotes are good examples of the Lloyd George style of leadership during World War I.
British prime minister (1916–22), Lloyd George dominated the British political scene in the latter part of World War I.
By JOSEFIN DOLSTEN/JTA - Wednesday, June 24th, 2020
NEW YORK — Sacha Baron Cohen has made a career out of playing absurd comedic characters, from the dopey Brit Ali G to the Kazakh journalist Borat to the Israeli veteran Erran Morad. He rarely gives interviews and stays relatively far from the movie star limelight.
But on Thursday, Cohen tossed aside the humorous facade to excoriate the social media industry and the “autocracy” he says it promotes in a non-ironic speech.
By Elizabeth Dwoskin - Saturday, May 30th, 2020
Twitter’s decision this week to label President Trump’s tweets for the first time appeared to the world as a quick-response salvo in an escalating battle between Silicon Valley and Washington. But the tiny labels were actually two years in the making as the company grappled with a double standard for politicians.
By Cathy Foley, Chief Scientist, CSIRO, and Dominic Banfield, Science and Technology Consultant, CSIRO - Friday, May 22nd, 2020
Quantum technology is not a phrase discussed over kitchen tables in Australia, but perhaps it should be.
Australia’s quantum technology research has been breaking new ground for almost 30 years. Governments, universities and more recently multinationals have all invested in this research.
Quantum technology is set to transform electronics, communications, computation, sensing and other fields. In the process it can create new markets, new applications and new jobs in Australia.
By Ted Smillie - Thursday, May 21st, 2020
One of the agreeable aspects of the COVID19 lockdown is that collectors have been revisiting, and sharing, some of their favourite old films and TV shows. Here are some links to start with, from silent days to more recent
By Vanessa Bates Ramirez - Monday, May 18th, 2020
Trying to hack fitness is a multi-million-dollar industry; we’ve all seen at least one ad featuring a purported miracle product that claims it can make people lose weight and look great — without even trying. From low-effort exercise machines to strange-ingredient diets to fat-burning belts and bands, there’s no shortage of attempts to make it easy to be fit.
A gene therapy trial performed on mice may foreshadow yet another way to hack fitness. In a study done by a team at Washington University in St. Louis’ medical school, mice quickly built muscle mass and reduced obesity after receiving the therapy, even while eating a diet high in fat and not exercising. The results were published last week in a paper in Science Advances.
Sound appealing? Here’s how it worked.
By Wayne Hicks - Thursday, May 14th, 2020
A common vision for the future of the nation’s energy grid involves homeowners selling unused power generated from rooftop solar panels to others in their communities, and working together to help ensure the reliability, resiliency, and security of the power grid everyone uses. Sounds great in theory. But how can the grid manage such complex energy transactions at scale?
Several emerging solutions to this opportunity rely on blockchain technology. Researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) are evaluating the use of blockchain for transactive energy using hardware in the laboratory’s Energy Systems Integration Facility (ESIF) and it may reshape the world of electric systems operation.
By Chris Johnson - Friday, April 17th, 2020
COVID-19 ROAD TO RECOVERY — WHAT GOVERNMENTS CAN LEARN FROM EACH OTHER: There are plenty of examples of governments handling the containment of the virus very wrong and there are some excellent cases of nations getting it very right. In this series of Mandarin Premium features, introduced by Chris Johnson, we give you an in-depth look at case studies, strategies and tactics, risks and pitfalls that several countries of note are taking.
