Australia Council asks artists to remove children fotos from the Web

Hypocrite  Garrett has  forced the Australia Council into territory of ridicule: it has to request artists to even take images taken 18 years ago of fully clothed children of their websites if they want to continue to receive funding. And as for the removal of naked children: what is not already addressed by the law to [...]

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Many in denial over rising population

The United Nations Populations Fund thinks that 1.1% population growth is too high for Asia. Australia under Rudd grows 1.7%, 0.2% more than under Howard. Based on the continuation of that rate we will have a population of 42 million by 2051 and 100 million by the end of the century. Yet the Rudd government [...]

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The world is a strange but amazing place

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Monogamy versus a bit on the side

Sydney Morning Herald
December 20, 2008

Mairi Macleod examines why some people are sexually restrained while others are outrageously promiscuous.
Some people revel in a reputation as a Casanova and others proudly proclaim their chastity. But most of us probably prefer not to advertise our sexual proclivities. Still, don’t get too comfortable with thinking attitudes to sex are [...]

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Squeaky wheels – the systems drags it self into emissions reductions

Ross Garnaut certainly is no greenie nor is he a social justice activist; he wouldn’t otherwise have been chosen by the government to be it’s chief climate-change adviser. Garnaut is a conservative Professor of Economics. It is therefore no surprise that he once was the economic adviser to the previous Labor Government, the man who layed the philosophical [...]

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Octopuses are intelligent creatures but might not have individual personalities

 

Octopuses are smart. According to Renata Pronk, marine biology researcher at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, these creatures can unscrew lids of jars, find their way through mazes to reach food rewards at the end and learn that certain symbols in puzzles (such as squares or circles) are linked to food. Next time you tuck [...]

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Six procrastinator types

The Overdoer

The Defier

The Dreamer

The Self-Critical

The Perfectionist

The Worrier

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