New Catallaxy

You would have heard a little while ago that Aotearoa, New Zealand to you old-fashioned folk, recently introduced a new medical triage policy. Other things equal, you go to the head of the queue if you are Maori. And, as medicine is often a judgement call, doctors and hospital administrators are bound to err on…

Many readers ask us ‘what is civil society and why do you go on about it so much’?    Civil society comprises the relationships and activities that make up our life at grass-roots    levels of society, in families, communities and voluntary associations, independent of both    government and the commercial world.     It comprises eight key segments:     Family,…

As the capacity of coal power sinks towards the level of demand This is a short story to explain why intermittent inputs from the sun and wind can’t power a sustainable energy system. Its all about the wind droughts. Especially at night. First, the ABC of intermittent energy production. A. Input to the grid must…

Triffids first appeared in a post-apocalyptic novel in the 1951 that depicted a swarm of people-eating monster plants stalking the countryside. Apparently they were bioengineered in a secret laboratory in the USSR and accidentally got released into the wild (yes we have heard that one before.)    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_of_the_Triffids The modern triffids are made of steel,…

Sorry for late call, objections close at midnight and the word is that not enough have come in yet to force a review of the submission. 50 are required and the locals have been captured by the RE interests. It takes less than five minutes to lodge an objection after you register on the portal,…

When I was growing up in Liverpool England, my dad’s favourite word for what he regarded as nonsense was ‘hooey’. I didn’t know where he got it from. Maybe from American gangster or western novels, which he devoured before television took over the household. It’s North American apparently, though its origin seems to be obscure.…