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Nathan Lee's blog
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Nathan's musings, travels, rants and raves about the environment, religion, politics and society at large.
- Author: Nathan Lee
- Listed in: Politics Green
- Tags: travel religion environment atheism motorcycles
Recent Posts
Pork 2.0: Meat blob grown in a lab
Boy did “Better off Ted” pick this one: meat grown in the lab (but needs a bit of muscle tone to compete with “real” meat). Better off Ted: a step closer to "blobby" the meat blob. In the article “Tuck into som...
North Koreans limited to US$740 life savings!
This is pretty messed up: North Korea changing currency by chopping several zeros off. BUT unlike say Australia’s transition from pounds or Europe’s introduction of the Euro, North Korea’s only allowing limited amount of changeover ...
Productivity: Eating Elephants at work
How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. It’s one of those sayings to encourage people to break things down into smaller tasks, but I came up with a little visual idea for dealing with the “too bloody big” tasks. One of the d...
Volunteer tree hugging (more like grass fondling)
A month or so back I did a bit of a different day in the office: a day of native vegetation planting and weed removal out at Homebush, Sydney (the old Olympic site). It was for a group called Conservation Volunteers Australia and part of my work̵...
Acadamia vs business *sigh*
Those “cool bits” of functionality on a project you occasionally get to sink your teeth into at work usually turn out something like this. XKCD nails it again: acadamia vs business...
Cockroaches are not of this world
As much as I like the idea of recycling and appreciate the complexity of natural biological systems, this article on cockroach urine recycling just makes them even creepier. Not only can they fly, squeeze under fridges, withstand a wide range of squa...
