Side View • Crikey https://www.crikey.com.au/side-view/ On politics, media, business, the environment and life Tue, 29 Nov 2022 05:04:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.5 https://www.crikey.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/cropped-android-chrome-512x512-1.png?quality=70&w=32 Side View • Crikey https://www.crikey.com.au/side-view/ 32 32 232040107 Don’t speak to me until I’ve taken my 225,000,000km nap https://www.crikey.com.au/2022/11/29/side-view-mars-incels-twitter/ https://www.crikey.com.au/2022/11/29/side-view-mars-incels-twitter/#respond Tue, 29 Nov 2022 05:01:26 +0000 https://www.crikey.com.au/?p=1029547 Artist's rendering of Mars (Image: Adobe)This week in Side View: galactic snoozing, misogynists gonna misogynise, the non-surge in crime in the US, and Mae West in London.

The post Don’t speak to me until I’ve taken my 225,000,000km nap appeared first on Crikey.

]]> https://www.crikey.com.au/2022/11/29/side-view-mars-incels-twitter/feed/ 0 Terrorism for dummies: Donald Trump and the art of fabricating a left-wing plot https://www.crikey.com.au/2022/11/15/side-view-donald-trump-security-chief/ https://www.crikey.com.au/2022/11/15/side-view-donald-trump-security-chief/#comments Tue, 15 Nov 2022 04:50:02 +0000 https://www.crikey.com.au/?p=1024952 Former US president Donald TrumpPlus: calling time on 'missionary', ta-ta to Twitter, Prince versus Dickens, and addressing loneliness in schools.

The post Terrorism for dummies: Donald Trump and the art of fabricating a left-wing plot appeared first on Crikey.

]]> https://www.crikey.com.au/2022/11/15/side-view-donald-trump-security-chief/feed/ 3 How the GOP glorifies political violence https://www.crikey.com.au/2022/11/01/side-view-republicans-glorify-violence/ https://www.crikey.com.au/2022/11/01/side-view-republicans-glorify-violence/#respond Tue, 01 Nov 2022 04:26:03 +0000 https://www.crikey.com.au/?p=1020282 Police outside the home of Paul Pelosi, husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, after a violent assault (Image: AAP/AP/Eric Risberg)Plus the growing power of unions, pointless protests about Qatar, and what happened to the dog from The Thing?

The post How the GOP glorifies political violence appeared first on Crikey.

]]> https://www.crikey.com.au/2022/11/01/side-view-republicans-glorify-violence/feed/ 0 Why something and not nothing? https://www.crikey.com.au/2022/10/18/side-view-something-and-not-nothing/ https://www.crikey.com.au/2022/10/18/side-view-something-and-not-nothing/#comments Tue, 18 Oct 2022 04:43:48 +0000 https://www.crikey.com.au/?p=1015296 'Pale Blue Dot', a photograph taken from about 6 billion kilometers away by the Voyage 1 space probe, showing Earth as a tiny dot within deep space (Voyager 1/NASA)Plus: drawing circles, the UK as an emerging market, and good dogs.

The post Why something and not nothing? appeared first on Crikey.

]]> https://www.crikey.com.au/2022/10/18/side-view-something-and-not-nothing/feed/ 1 Should we harvest embryos for organs? A start-up believes so https://www.crikey.com.au/2022/10/04/side-view-harvest-embryos-organs/ https://www.crikey.com.au/2022/10/04/side-view-harvest-embryos-organs/#respond Tue, 04 Oct 2022 04:57:01 +0000 https://www.crikey.com.au/?p=1010326 Illustration of human embryo (Image: Adobe)Plus the atrocity of the death penalty, fundamentalists on the march in Europe, and losing weight the hard way.

The post Should we harvest embryos for organs? A start-up believes so appeared first on Crikey.

]]> https://www.crikey.com.au/2022/10/04/side-view-harvest-embryos-organs/feed/ 0 Why game companies like Minecraft are the next tech giants https://www.crikey.com.au/2022/09/20/side-view-game-companies-tech-giants/ https://www.crikey.com.au/2022/09/20/side-view-game-companies-tech-giants/#respond Tue, 20 Sep 2022 05:28:19 +0000 https://www.crikey.com.au/?p=1006587 (Image: Minecraft)Plus: elephant personhood, the Uber hack ramifications, and killer Tucci.

The post Why game companies like Minecraft are the next tech giants appeared first on Crikey.

]]> https://www.crikey.com.au/2022/09/20/side-view-game-companies-tech-giants/feed/ 0 Is another US civil war on the horizon? https://www.crikey.com.au/2022/09/06/side-view-american-civil-war/ https://www.crikey.com.au/2022/09/06/side-view-american-civil-war/#respond Tue, 06 Sep 2022 06:15:27 +0000 https://www.crikey.com.au/?p=1002071 capitol hill mob protestPlus a not-so-fond farewell to the petrol engine, 50 years since the Munich Massacre, and the Altman way of death.

The post Is another US civil war on the horizon? appeared first on Crikey.

]]> https://www.crikey.com.au/2022/09/06/side-view-american-civil-war/feed/ 0 Do time-travel films hold coded Christian messages? https://www.crikey.com.au/2022/08/24/side-view-time-travel-hidden-messaging/ https://www.crikey.com.au/2022/08/24/side-view-time-travel-hidden-messaging/#comments Wed, 24 Aug 2022 05:06:52 +0000 https://www.crikey.com.au/?p=998078 A still from Back to the Future (Image: Universal)Whether Back to the Future was an anti-abortion text, the perils of Instagram face, and making a motza from FOI.

The post Do time-travel films hold coded Christian messages? appeared first on Crikey.

]]> https://www.crikey.com.au/2022/08/24/side-view-time-travel-hidden-messaging/feed/ 1 How can we decolonise mental health in Australia? https://www.crikey.com.au/2022/08/09/side-view-decolonise-mental-health/ https://www.crikey.com.au/2022/08/09/side-view-decolonise-mental-health/#respond Tue, 09 Aug 2022 05:14:19 +0000 https://www.crikey.com.au/?p=992061 aboriginal flagThis week in Side View: a First Nations look at mental wellbeing, America's ban on discussing abortion, and why technology won't save us from climate change.

The post How can we decolonise mental health in Australia? appeared first on Crikey.

]]> https://www.crikey.com.au/2022/08/09/side-view-decolonise-mental-health/feed/ 0 Dawn of the Dutton? https://www.crikey.com.au/2022/07/26/side-view-dawn-of-dutton/ https://www.crikey.com.au/2022/07/26/side-view-dawn-of-dutton/#respond Tue, 26 Jul 2022 05:43:27 +0000 https://www.crikey.com.au/?p=986578 (Image: MidJourney/Bernard Keane)This week in Side View: freaky AI art, why white supremacists aren't lone wolves, and Amazon comes to healthcare.

The post Dawn of the Dutton? appeared first on Crikey.

]]> https://www.crikey.com.au/2022/07/26/side-view-dawn-of-dutton/feed/ 0