Music from FNQ Band Kamerunga

Video featuring highlights of Far North Queensland band Kamerunga's performance at the 2011 Rainforest World Music Festival held in Borneo earlier this year and a mix of what might be on their next release.

war in profile - hiroshima - nagasaki a-bomb exhibition

Time is running out to see this very sobering exhibition. It is a must for Cairns locals to see before it ends. Interestingly, and it does cross your mind if you know the history, the Tanks, the venue the display is housed in, once played a key role in World War Two as a Naval fuel oil storage complex.
More information HERE

Hiroshima Peace Site

Music of Far North Queensland - Roz Pappalardo and The Wayward Gentlemen

Visit their website here.

Denis in Africa: From Nyamata to Ngoma

Denis in Africa: From Nyamata to Ngoma: You may remember my article from earlier this year about the new, dirt Road to Burundi in the valley opposite our place in Kibungo. Well the...

When Space Attacks!

With the fear mongers hyping up the risk of close encounters with asteroids passing closer than the Moon's orbit, here is some more trivia that should make your day.

Source:LiveScience

Orangutan Awareness Week November

Orangutan awareness week takes place every November highlighting the challenges faced by orangutans and their diminishing rainforest homes.

More information here:

http://www.orangutans.com.au/Orangutans-Survival-Information/Orangutan-Awareness-Week.aspx

Are We There Yet?

Filmed in Sunny Far North Queensland!

The Divided Brain - Iain McGilchrist

In this new RSAnimate, renowned psychiatrist and writer Iain McGilchrist explains how our 'divided brain' has profoundly altered human behaviour, culture and society. Taken from a lecture given by Iain McGilchrist. To view the full lecture, go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbUHxC4wiWk

ICARUS Proves Neutrinos More Than 10 Times Faster Than Light

In the Science Wars, who is winning? From Science 2.0:
ICARUS Proves Neutrinos More Than 10 Times Faster Than Light

Denis in Africa: Into the Valley of Death

Denis in Africa: Into the Valley of Death: South of Kigali and west of Kibungo is a flatter, marshy region with rivers and lakes known as the Bugesera. Until recent times the area was...

Brief Answers to Cosmic Questions

Brian Schmidt, an astrophysicist from the Australian National University has just been named a joint Nobel science prize winner in a field of science that can really do your head in, particularly if you are a kind of person that likes to ask questions like.... How did the Universe start? Where is it going and what will happen in the future? All your concerns about the meaning of life and the universe as it is currently understood can be found HERE

Life in Cairns 1964

The Australian National Film and Sound Archives recently released this snapshot of Cairns in the 1960's. Locals will easily pick out the free license to make stuff up by the film maker which makes it even more entertaining. But one thing is for sure, life in the Far North has certainly changed since 1964.