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Friday, March 8, 2024

How cruise ships became a catastrophe for the planet | It's Complicated

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Thursday, March 7, 2024

PEDDER : The fault in Tasmania’s wilderness, is a story of restoring hope.

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Jane Elliott College Brown Eye Blue Eye Experiment

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Monday, March 4, 2024

Cranbrook and the private school “arms race”. How far is elite school funding out of whack?

Cranbrook and the private school “arms race”. How far is elite school funding out of whack?
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    Guyana's ‘Ol’ Higue’ meets her match in tale that is the regional winner of the 2025 Commonwealth Short Story Prize - The author says the piece is “authentically Caribbean” – essentially “a story about family [and] its role in creating spaces of safety and sustenance in ti...
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    H-bomb creator Richard Garwin was a giant in science, technology and policy - Garwin was best known as the designer of the hydrogen bomb, but he was also a longtime arms control expert, IBM researcher and adviser to presidents.
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    1 day ago
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    Senior Sergeant Giles farewells the Far North - Following a career spanning some 35-year with Queensland Police, today we say farewell to our colleague and friend, Senior Sergeant Greg Giles. Senior Serg...
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    The geopolitical future of Ukraine – four possible scenarios for 2025–2026 - The most probable outcome for 2025–2026 is a continued stalemate, where neither Ukraine nor Russia achieves a decisive military victory.
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    1 day ago
  • Cheeseburger Gothic
    First the robots came for your motivation, but I had no motivation so... - I found this bit on ZDNet about a Harvard study on genAI use kind of interesting.
    2 days ago
  • Open Mind
    Arctic Sea Ice - A reader recently asked whether or not there has been a statistically significant changepoint in Arctic sea ice loss. Such questions are usually prompted b...
    2 weeks ago
  • Green Bites
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    1 month ago
  • BunyipCo
    Those Pesky Little Beetles - For the past couple of moths a small black beetle has been present in "plague" proportions. It is a Predaceous Ground Beetle, family Carabidae. Not want...
    2 months ago
  • tyto tony
    Monitor with right-of-way not spotted right away - Who gives way on footbridge, Yellow-spotted Monitor or unspotted bird watcher? Naturally, dinkum locals have right-of-way. I step aside, Spotty ambles f...
    2 months ago
  • The Australian Independent Media Network
    Boxing Day Tsunami 20 years on: Plan International Australia remembers global solidarity - Plan International Australia Media Release December 26 marks 20 years since the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, which claimed the lives of 230,000 p...
    4 months ago
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    1 year ago
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    3 years ago
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    4 years ago
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    Lengthy closures of schools and childcare centres will end mothers’ careers - The second-order effects of massively disrupting the global and local movement of people are coming for us all, but they're coming for mothers pretty early...
    5 years ago
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    Sparring pademelons - Red-legged pademelons (*Thylogale stigmatica*) are not sociable animals, but they put up with each other. But every now and then, especially towards the en...
    6 years ago
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    TONY COHEN – A TRIBUTE TO AN AUSTRALIAN ROCK MUSIC LEGEND - Record producer and sound engineer Tony Cohen has been remembered as a national treasure, a genius, and as the brain, ears and fingers behind some of Austr...
    7 years ago
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    What is the role of a travel photographer? And how should that inform your photography? - Let's get a definition out of the way first. When I say travel photographer I mean anybody who travels, and takes photos. Amateur, pro, beginner, veteran....
    9 years ago
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    Rob Pyne Bio and Links - Born in Gordonvale and raised in Edmonton, Rob is certainly a local. He worked in various professions after leaving school, including the Public Trustee, w...
    9 years ago
  • Denis in Africa
    Rwandan wrap up - Nearly a year has gone by in a blink. The Rwandan adventure is drawing to a close. On Monday I sat in an austere mud home in a remote part of Ngoma distric...
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