During the past 23 years since I wrote Bodymind Energetics, the Complementary and Alternative Medicine professions as a collective phenomenon have evolved greatly, much in the direction I had anticipated. The only problem is that the AOM profession, intently focused as it was on establishing its own professional identity, tended to ignore the fact that to the average CAM practitioner, and to co...

GENERAL DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS 9.1 Summary 9.1.1 The Port Lincoln Silver Gull Population Silver Gull abundance has undoubtedly increased in the Port Lincoln area over the last three decades; a growth which has coincided with the development of the Southern Bluefin Tuna aquaculture industry. The number of nesting pairs on the main breeding colony, Rabbit Island has increased from 100 pairs i...

In recent years, there has been an explosion in the popularity of hackathons — creative, participant-driven meetings at which software developers gather for an intensive bout of programming, often organized in teams. Hackathons have tangible and intangible outcomes, such as code, excitement, learning, networking, and so on, whose relative merits are unclear. For example, a frequent complaint is...