If you self-identify as a lobster, I believe I’m entitled to eat you
One day, a friend of mine sent me a video of one of Jordan Peterson’s interviews. I didn’t watch that interview fully. I realised I’d heard his reference to ‘lobsters’…
Ask Professor Pelly: How scientific is the Myers-Briggs Personality test?
Ask Professor Pelly is a column in which the Pelican science team answer your science-y questions Bradan asks: How scientifically accurate is the popular Myers-Briggs personality test? In case you…
Do Your Own Research
The anti-vaxxers have done it again. Perth news media had warned civilians against visiting IKEA, Perth Zoo, and South West WA after tracing the path of a measles-infected individual who…
Why doesn’t anyone care?
The most legitimate people in climate science met on Monday to deliver a warning to the world’s leaders: global greenhouse gas emissions MUST halt completely by 2050, or we risk…
The Flat Earth Conspiracy
If you’ve got a couple of hours to kill, I highly recommend taking a trip down this rabbit hole of twisted logic and backyard science.
An Ode to Joyce.
“People in the Kmart, people in the local pub, they don’t care about the Paris agreement, it means nothing to them, it has no purpose” – Barnaby Joyce. The sour-faced…
The Weird and Wonderful World of the Ig Nobel Prize
The annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremonies were begun in 1991 by the Annals of Improbable Research in an effort to “celebrate the unusual, honour the imaginative — and spur people’s…
The Guppy Bachelor: What gets a Guppy going?
A few words on mating preferences and the particulars of match-making in fish, in tribute to the new season of The Bachelor, scheduled to kick off this week. Selection of…
WOMEN OF SCIENCE
Women of science are my champions. Besides the fact that they’re doing all the hard work that being a scientist entails, often they face the added challenge of overcoming sexism…
Noisy Oceans and Swimming Blind: What Causes a Whale to Beach?
It seems a tragic waste of life for a group that has emerged triumphant from a bleak history of human slaughter.