Context is all important in asking any question? And these days a key question is the importance of history. Pragmatic agendas of the daily grind obscure how significance the study of the past is for getting a perspective on how to live a better life. This blog looks at how different present contexts are better understood from what preceded.
A Historian's Future in Australia by Drs Neil Peach, A.I., and Neville Buch Abstract: This essay addresses the potential for a specialist historian, holding a PhD with expertise in the history of cognition, local history, history of religion, and...
“I rather be Right than Correct”. If you have intelligent ears to hear, intelligent eyes to see, and intelligent mouths to speak, the statement is perceived in the Age of Trumpism. Today, assertion is increasingly made without the intelligence. There is...
BUSINESS Office: 18 Callendar St, Sunnybank Hills QLD 4109 AUSTRALIA 23 February 2025 RE: Prevented from Making Immediate Payment through Machine Thinking Dear Medibank Executive Officer, This morning I was ready to pay...
"Liberalism is the refuge favored by intellectual cowardice, because the essence of the liberal’s position is that he has no position." The quote is Buckley's Up With Liberalism Mind-Twister. It is one of the great political falsehoods of the late...
When British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher caused an uproar in 1987 by telling an interviewer, “There is no such thing as society,” she was referring to the big amorphous concept, not the specific word. All these years later, though, with “society” vanishing...
Tax-free stipends, last year, for Ph.D. candidates, amounted to A$32,192, about $619 a week. There is concern that the amount is too close to the poverty line. Without payments for my professional work, which stems from a Ph.D. and two graduate diplomas,...
Dear friends, A message not from me, but, as one of the many Queensland public, I support. "Queensland Government's inability to deal with histories." Queensland Ignored Its Own Bicentenary...
From John Wagner's List on LinkedIn. Corporate culture that needs to get canceled in 2025: * Micromanagement * Mandatory Return To Office * Glorifying Overworking * Expecting staff to be available 24/7 * Meetings that could have been an...
On Linked-In: Dear Hiring Managers, I would like to express my feelings regarding a recent interview experience that I found quite disappointing. I applied for a position about a month ago, and the job posting is still active. The marketing...