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Where money goes, jobs follow. Unbeknowst to 99% of Australians, we
already have an emissions trading scheme. Thank Malcolm Turnbull and
Clive Palmer. Soon, Australians are likely to be sending real money
overseas and getting back paper certificates at prices set by the EU.
The legislation was snuck through just before Christmas 2015, buried
under the name “Safeguard Mechanism”. It cost about $7m
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Suddenly there’s a whole lot of independent candidates running in
Australia looking to copy the Kerryn Phelps success in taking the
blue-ribbon conservative seat of Wentworth. They all say they are
independent, but they are all sworn to climate action and GetUp supports
most if not all of them. So if and when they say they’ll support a
Liberal National Coalition government, ask yourself if GetUp
blogger-following
While Game of Thrones fans await the show's final two episodes to see
who will ultimately sit on the Iron Throne (and get mad about it ), one
fan has already cooked up the perfect spin-off for Arya Stark and The
Hound. Set to the smooth stylings of Jim Croce's "I Got A Name," the
clip opens with the pair's exit from Westeros in the most recent episode
and then takes us on a dusty trip down memory
Tick tock! The first Watchmen teaser is finally here, and it is chaotic
and intense. Damon Lindelof returns to HBO after The Leftovers with
this highly anticipated drama based on the graphic novel by Alan Moore
and Dave Gibbons. The show is a modern take on the novel and set in an
alternate history where superheroes and vigilantes are treated as
untrustworthy outlaws. It stars Regina Hall, Don Jo
Paranormal
investigators have captured what they believe to be evidence of the
paranormal in Edinburgh. Situated beneath the Royal Mile in the
Scottis...
The
short-lived insects have embarked on their bi-annual flight, leaving
streets and homes completely engulfed. For Florida's Space Coast two
times a ...
Mmm
hmm. IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany
and America’s Most Powerful Corporation by Edwin Black Via: IEEE:
Growing skepticism toward vaccines has sparked a flareup of measles
outbreaks affecting New York City neighborhoods, cruise ships,
international airports and even Google’s Mountain View headquarters. To
help family physicians reach out to […]
It’s the first US city to decriminalize psilocybin mushrooms. Denver
will become the first US city to effectively decriminalize mushrooms
containing the psychedelic psilocybin, also known as “magic mushrooms.”
Initiative 301 makes the personal use and possession of psilocybin
mushrooms among people 21 and older the lowest possible law enforcement
priority in Denver. It also prohibits the city fro
John
Cassidy writes about Donald Trump’s business losses between 1985 and
1994, as revealed in a recent New York Times report on the President’s
tax returns from that period.
The Senate Intelligence Committee has some more Russia-related
questions for the president’s son. Donald Trump Jr. has been subpoenaed
by a congressional committee investigating the Russia scandal — but the
surprising twist is that it’s a Republican-controlled committee that has
made the move. The Senate Intelligence Committee has demanded Trump Jr.
return for further testimony about the Trump To
Landmark follows government pledge to phase out electricity from coal
by 2025 Britain has gone a week without using coal to generate
electricity for the first time since Queen Victoria was on the throne,
in a landmark moment in the transition away from the heavily polluting
fuel. The last coal generator came off the system at 1.24pm on 1 May,
meaning the UK reached a week without coal at 1.24pm o
It feels like there is no acceptable way for Palestinians to protest
against oppression Eurovision has always been an exercise in bad taste,
but this year’s event takes things to an extreme. If you want to enjoy
the kitschy song contest, which will take place from 14 to 18 May in Tel
Aviv, Israel, then you have got to ignore the bloody political context
that surrounds it. Indeed, Israel is so int
New York Times' latest exposé is a reminder: Trump cheats at everything, and sees other people only as marks
Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) today announced a bill that would ban loot
boxes and pay-to-win microtransactions in “games played by minors,” a
broad label that the senator says will include both games designed for
kids under 18 and games “whose developers knowingly allow minor players
to engage in microtransactions.” Read more...
An ultra-stable gold-coordinated protein cage displaying reversible
assembly An ultra-stable gold-coordinated protein cage displaying
reversible assembly, Published online: 08 May 2019;
doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1185-4 An artificial protein cage is readily
assembled by metal ion coordination and disassembled by reducing agents,
and displays excellent chemical and thermal stability.
A
team of researchers from Osaka University and Kirin Holdings Company,
Limited demonstrated that the texture formation in a pint glass of
Guinness beer is induced by flow of a bubble-free fluid film flowing
down along the wall of the glass, a world first. This phenomenon is
found to be analogous to roll waves commonly observed in water sliding
downhill on a rainy day. Their research results were
Antimatter is made of waves, and physicists have proven it at the level of a single antimatter particle.
In
the heart of Iceland's volcano country, 21st-century alchemists are
transforming carbon dioxide into rock for eternity, cleaning the air of
harmful emissions that cause global warming.
When
it comes to learning a language, the left side of the brain has
traditionally been considered the hub of language processing. But new
research shows the right brain plays a critical early role in helping
learners identify the basic sounds associated with a language. That
could help find new teaching method
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