Mayfield's Bob Martin has sorted out Nobbys with a bit of digital wizardry.
He did so because he reckons the two newer pavilions at Nobbys are "eyesores".
"I photoshopped copies of the original pavilion over the two newer pavilion eyesores [see original photo below]," Bob said.
"I believe Nobbys beach buildings and original pavilion are iconic and let down by these additions. With the money the council is spending on south Newcastle beach, why couldn't the beautiful old pavilion at Nobbys be replicated with matching buildings? Instead we get a couple of eyesores that look like they came in a flatpack from Ikea."
He does seem to have a point ... just like the roof on the original pavilion.
Costly Climate Change
You may have heard that a group of teens sought through the Federal Court to prevent environment minister Sussan Ley from approving Whitehaven's Vickery coal mine extension in NSW.
The court dismissed their bid, but the case did throw up some interesting points.
Writing in The Conversation, Liam Phelan and Jacquie Svenson - of the University of Newcastle - noted that some important matters emerged during the court proceedings.
"This included new figures on the financial costs of climate change to young Australians over their lifetimes. An independent expert witness put the loss at between $125,000 and $245,000 per person. The calculation was a conservative one and did not include health impacts, which were assessed separately."
The federal government's legal team and the judge accepted this evidence.
"That it was uncontested represents an important shift. No longer are the financial impacts of climate change a vague future loss - they're now a tangible, quantifiable harm," wrote the pair.
Real Paleo Diet
We wrote recently that Joseph Lycett's paintings in Newcastle in the early 1800s showed Aboriginal people looking full of health and vigour.
Their diet included seafood, fruit, nuts, roots, vegetables, grasses and seeds, along with meats such as kangaroo, porcupine, emu, possum, goanna and turtles.
This, we noted, was a real paleo diet.
On this topic, we just read a piece in Science Daily that showed the "Tsimane indigenous people of the Bolivian Amazon experience less brain atrophy than their American and European peers".
"The decrease in their brain volumes with age is 70 per cent slower than in Western populations. Accelerated brain volume loss can be a sign of dementia," the article stated.
"Although people in industrialised nations have access to modern medical care, they are more sedentary and eat a diet high in saturated fats. In contrast, the Tsimane have little or no access to health care but are extremely physically active and consume a high-fibre diet that includes vegetables, fish and lean meat."
