We need to start off with a bit of geology for this article, before we move into chemistry. The Permian Period is an interval of geological time which began 298.9…
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St Hilda’s Anglican School for Girls is a private school in Perth1. For girls to attend, they charge $17,786 for Kindergarten and $27,120 for Year 12, with other years being…
Last year we had our first lockdown to help cut down the spread of Covid-19 and one of the enjoyable parts of the end of lockdown was getting rid of…
Portugal, a nation with a population of just over 10 million, like most countries in Europe, has suffered badly in the pandemic. One in ten of the population have been…
Early in September, I wrote a piece with the rather obscure title ‘Antivaxxers don’t do irony’. Its main thesis was that antivaxxers do not seem to understand that the governments…
As I related here a couple of weeks ago, I brought forward my second dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine to 9 weeks after the first dose1. While partial protection against…
The incredibly vacant and entitled Tony Abbott has been fined $500 dollars for not wearing a mask. A random law-abiding beachgoer grabbed her phone and took several photographs of Abbott…
Achieving herd immunity against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, depends in part on how long the vaccines protect you against infection. If a vaccine continues to work well over…
Antivaxxers (anti-vaccination activists) seem to be so deluded or gullible that they will believe anything despite it being clearly untrue and easily debunked1,2. Many of them refuse to have any…