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Scientist Reacts to Pseudoscience", "url": "https://www.michaeldello.com/this-device-protects-you-from-5g-scientist-reacts-to-pseudoscience/", "published_at": "2020-05-25T05:44:18+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbb9-4261-7264-b08f-9969d3b596b7", "title": "The end of meat is here", "url": "https://www.michaeldello.com/the-end-of-meat-is-here/", "published_at": "2020-05-22T02:36:10+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbb9-4261-7264-b08f-9969d461b89c", "title": "More Youtube videos!", "url": "https://www.michaeldello.com/more-youtube-videos/", "published_at": "2020-05-19T22:59:14+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbb9-4261-7264-b08f-9969d510467e", "title": "On meditation and mindfulness – part 1", "url": "https://www.michaeldello.com/on-meditation-and-mindfulness-part-1/", "published_at": "2020-05-14T00:39:09+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbbd-a00a-73bf-8a01-e832cfe45f38", "title": "How I renounced Christianity and became atheist (or, my ongoing struggle with the fear of oblivion)", "url": "https://www.michaeldello.com/how-i-renounced-christianity-and-became-atheist-or-my-ongoing-struggle-with-the-fear-of-oblivion/", "published_at": "2020-05-12T06:48:21+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbbd-a00a-73bf-8a01-e832d0bb37f3", "title": "On jaywalking and the casual ‘minor’ law breaking", "url": "https://www.michaeldello.com/on-jaywalking-and-the-casual-minor-law-breaking/", "published_at": "2020-05-06T23:08:53+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbbd-a00a-73bf-8a01-e832d1678db5", "title": "Is it ridiculous to take steps to reduce personal harm to insects?", "url": "https://www.michaeldello.com/is-it-ridiculous-to-take-steps-to-reduce-personal-harm-to-insects/", "published_at": "2020-05-05T03:30:28+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbbd-a00a-73bf-8a01-e832d1eb67fb", "title": "Is not caring about wild-animal suffering speciesist?", "url": "https://www.michaeldello.com/is-not-caring-about-wild-animal-suffering-speciesist/", "published_at": "2020-05-02T23:50:48+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbbd-a00a-73bf-8a01-e832d1f64559", "title": "Alternate explanations for conspiracies", "url": "https://www.michaeldello.com/alternate-explanations-for-conspiracies/", "published_at": "2020-04-29T22:33:18+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbbd-a00a-73bf-8a01-e832d2522759", "title": "Possible environmental benefits of off-Earth mining", "url": "https://www.michaeldello.com/possible-environmental-benefits-of-off-earth-mining/", "published_at": "2020-04-28T00:22:59+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbbd-a00a-73bf-8a01-e832d2e3dc37", "title": "Streaming to raise money for Animals Australia", "url": "https://www.michaeldello.com/streaming-to-raise-money-for-animals-australia/", "published_at": "2019-08-26T02:53:04+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbbd-a00a-73bf-8a01-e832d32cefdc", "title": "Thoughts on vegan activism in Australia", "url": "https://www.michaeldello.com/thoughts-on-vegan-activism-in-australia/", "published_at": "2019-04-09T10:00:31+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbbd-a00a-73bf-8a01-e832d34d6cea", "title": "Interview with Siobhan O’Sullivan of the Knowing Animals podcast", "url": "https://www.michaeldello.com/interview-with-siobhan-osullivan-of-the-knowing-animals-podcast/", "published_at": "2019-04-01T02:24:03+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbbd-a00a-73bf-8a01-e832d383ca29", "title": "The need for a tax on harmful products", "url": "https://www.michaeldello.com/the-need-for-a-tax-on-harmful-products/", "published_at": "2019-03-03T11:28:16+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbc2-2d0a-7041-a6f4-9e022edc3047", "title": "Cellular agriculture – The need for it and its progress", "url": "https://www.michaeldello.com/cellular-agriculture-the-need-for-it-and-its-progress/", "published_at": "2019-02-19T22:51:44+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbc2-2d0a-7041-a6f4-9e022fc49f6a", "title": "To my Australian readers – The animals and environment need your help this election", "url": "https://www.michaeldello.com/to-my-australian-readers-the-animals-and-environment-need-your-help-this-election/", "published_at": "2019-01-29T10:43:42+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbc2-2d0a-7041-a6f4-9e02302eea1e", "title": "Weekly election campaign update #3", "url": "https://www.michaeldello.com/weekly-election-campaign-update-3/", "published_at": "2019-01-29T02:55:28+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbc2-2d0a-7041-a6f4-9e023046e786", "title": "Reducing emissions by food choices", "url": "https://www.michaeldello.com/reducing-emissions-by-food-choices/", "published_at": "2019-01-27T22:07:25+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbc2-2d0a-7041-a6f4-9e0230a3ad05", "title": "Thoughts about Yew-Kwang Ng", "url": "https://www.michaeldello.com/thoughts-about-yew-kwang-ng/", "published_at": "2019-01-25T22:59:01+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbc2-2d0a-7041-a6f4-9e0230add2bf", "title": "Weekly election campaign update #2", "url": "https://www.michaeldello.com/weekly-election-campaign-update-2/", "published_at": "2019-01-25T04:52:46+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbc2-2d0a-7041-a6f4-9e02312c1697", "title": "Are vegans crazy?", "url": 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2026

Why I gave to a charity I couldn’t claim on taxoriginal ↗
21 Jun 2026
Mapping Australia’s battery boom by postcodeoriginal ↗
8 Apr 2026
Data centres in space: all the pros and consoriginal ↗
21 Mar 2026
Claude’s off-peak promotion is smart for servers, possibly bad for the gridoriginal ↗
15 Mar 2026
How exactly do data centres affect electricity prices?original ↗
11 Mar 2026
Australia’s electricity Market Price Cap is going up in July. Here’s what that means.original ↗
7 Mar 2026
Data centre demand forecasts, phantom load, and who pays?original ↗
21 Feb 2026
Assemblyman Takeda’s 2040 address on AIoriginal ↗
20 Feb 2026
On the next 2 years of AIoriginal ↗
8 Feb 2026
Short takes: The coconut effectoriginal ↗
30 Jan 2026
How to make stuff with AIoriginal ↗
27 Jan 2026
A case study of technical (energy) policy reform from outside governmentoriginal ↗
26 Jan 2026

2025

Australia’s Agriculture and Land Sector Plan: A Missed Opportunity for Bold Changeoriginal ↗
22 Sept 2025
Carbon offsetting is underratedoriginal ↗
30 Aug 2025
Seeding the Stars: Could We Plant Life on Other Worlds?original ↗
8 Feb 2025
What a Trump Presidency Means for AI and Humanityoriginal ↗
5 Feb 2025
Should Humans Play God on Mars?original ↗
2 Feb 2025
Can we terraform Mars?original ↗
18 Jan 2025

2024

Finding Purpose by Living on $29K USD & Giving Away the Restoriginal ↗
13 Nov 2024
Hera: ESA’s Probe to Study Asteroid Deflectionoriginal ↗
8 Oct 2024
Testing how radioactive Sydney isoriginal ↗
7 Sept 2024
How launch escape systems save astronautsoriginal ↗
14 Jul 2024
Did we discover Dyson spheres? Why might aliens build one?original ↗
26 Jun 2024
Will the future be utopian or dystopian?original ↗
19 Jun 2024
I caved – I’m on TikTok noworiginal ↗
6 May 2024

2022

2022 Federal Election recaporiginal ↗
3 Jun 2022
I fear a dark sky (short story)original ↗
30 May 2022
Some new thoughts on not having kids (Look ma, I was on TV!)original ↗
26 May 2022
Return of the websiteoriginal ↗
25 May 2022

2021

Answering Tricky Moral Questions and Responding to Cosmic Skeptic’s Answersoriginal ↗
12 Apr 2021
Life with tinnitusoriginal ↗
7 Apr 2021
I’m running for Inner West Council!original ↗
31 Mar 2021
“Sentientism captures everything – it’s future proof” – My interview on the Sentientism podcastoriginal ↗
18 Mar 2021
I’m a little bit addicted to boulderingoriginal ↗
12 Mar 2021
Morality is Hard podcast episode 9 – Emma Hurst – Political change for animalsoriginal ↗
7 Mar 2021
The science of why stretching might not be what you think it isoriginal ↗
14 Feb 2021
I used to hunt fishoriginal ↗
12 Feb 2021
Someone threatened to kill me on a train so I thought about life and stufforiginal ↗
31 Jan 2021
Podcast recommendation – Self-Improvement and Research Ethics with Rob Wiblin and Spencer Greenbergoriginal ↗
28 Jan 2021
Why I’m Considering a Vasectomy (Change My Mind)original ↗
24 Jan 2021
My sports climbing and fitness journeyoriginal ↗
20 Jan 2021
Non-humans as a second-class animal in the eyes of some vegansoriginal ↗
18 Jan 2021
My PhD – Summary of research and my experiencesoriginal ↗
5 Jan 2021

2020

A new and more useful way to rate how much you like something (e.g. food, experiences)original ↗
30 Dec 2020
There it goes, the very last tree [environmental poem/art]original ↗
22 Dec 2020
The Case for Antinatalismoriginal ↗
30 Nov 2020
The risks of a raw vegan dietoriginal ↗
17 Nov 2020
Update on my blog, podcast and Youtube channeloriginal ↗
13 Oct 2020
Preparing for the unimaginableoriginal ↗
29 Sept 2020
A 2 metre asteroid has a 0.5% chance of hitting Earth this yearoriginal ↗
4 Sept 2020
Stop saying ex-vegans were definitely never veganoriginal ↗
3 Sept 2020
Preparing for the unimaginableoriginal ↗
1 Sept 2020
Comments on Sam Harris’ interview with Future of Life Instituteoriginal ↗
20 Jul 2020
The relationship between atheism and veganismoriginal ↗
17 Jul 2020
Burnside Council Votes Against Fur Ban – My Speech and Thoughtsoriginal ↗
15 Jul 2020
A counter to the objectiveness of religious moralityoriginal ↗
11 Jul 2020
How we treat wild animals in Australia doesn’t make senseoriginal ↗
9 Jul 2020
Does veganism actually do anything?original ↗
6 Jul 2020
Why I, a Vegan Environmentalist, Worked for an Oil & Gas Companyoriginal ↗
5 Jul 2020
On suicide and online communitiesoriginal ↗
3 Jul 2020
I don’t love animalsoriginal ↗
30 Jun 2020
Trolley Problem Meme Revieworiginal ↗
27 Jun 2020
Morality is Hard podcast updateoriginal ↗
25 Jun 2020
Animal rights message in The State of the Art, Iain Banks’ science fictionoriginal ↗
23 Jun 2020
Some thoughts on the recent spike in SARS-Cov2 cases in Victoriaoriginal ↗
22 Jun 2020
Would human extinction be good or bad?original ↗
21 Jun 2020
Preventing detection of life on Earth (or even the planet itself) by alien civilisationsoriginal ↗
15 Jun 2020
Short story – Limbooriginal ↗
14 Jun 2020
Balance as Bias – How Media Misrepresents Science ft. 60 Minutes & Pete Evansoriginal ↗
14 Jun 2020
Parasyte: The Maxim – vegan messages in an animeoriginal ↗
10 Jun 2020
Why I Will Never Have a Child – Antinatalism and ethicsoriginal ↗
7 Jun 2020
On the state of the worldoriginal ↗
6 Jun 2020
Australian live export ban of 2011 invalid?original ↗
2 Jun 2020
Effective Animal Advocacy: The difference between life and deathoriginal ↗
31 May 2020
Esports and how to get interviewed in the mediaoriginal ↗
29 May 2020
The case against colonising spaceoriginal ↗
28 May 2020
This Device Protects You From 5G? Scientist Reacts to Pseudoscienceoriginal ↗
25 May 2020
The end of meat is hereoriginal ↗
22 May 2020
More Youtube videos!original ↗
19 May 2020
On meditation and mindfulness – part 1original ↗
14 May 2020
How I renounced Christianity and became atheist (or, my ongoing struggle with the fear of oblivion)original ↗
12 May 2020
On jaywalking and the casual ‘minor’ law breakingoriginal ↗
6 May 2020
Is it ridiculous to take steps to reduce personal harm to insects?original ↗
5 May 2020
Is not caring about wild-animal suffering speciesist?original ↗
2 May 2020
Alternate explanations for conspiraciesoriginal ↗
29 Apr 2020
Possible environmental benefits of off-Earth miningoriginal ↗
28 Apr 2020

2019

Streaming to raise money for Animals Australiaoriginal ↗
26 Aug 2019
Thoughts on vegan activism in Australiaoriginal ↗
9 Apr 2019
Interview with Siobhan O’Sullivan of the Knowing Animals podcastoriginal ↗
1 Apr 2019
The need for a tax on harmful productsoriginal ↗
3 Mar 2019
Cellular agriculture – The need for it and its progressoriginal ↗
19 Feb 2019
To my Australian readers – The animals and environment need your help this electionoriginal ↗
29 Jan 2019
Weekly election campaign update #3original ↗
29 Jan 2019
Reducing emissions by food choicesoriginal ↗
27 Jan 2019
Thoughts about Yew-Kwang Ngoriginal ↗
25 Jan 2019
Weekly election campaign update #2original ↗
25 Jan 2019
Are vegans crazy?original ↗
22 Jan 2019
How can we best help animals?original ↗
15 Jan 2019
Weekly election campaign update #1original ↗
14 Jan 2019
Morality is Hard podcast – Episode 8 – Jacy Reese – The End of Animal Farmingoriginal ↗
10 Jan 2019
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