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Residents divided over push to change 'offensive' name of beach
Daily Mail· 12 hours agoThe beach was known as Rosherville Beach, but was renamed in 1977 according to senior lecturer in...
Climate activists have received months-long sentences. Are tougher laws eroding Australians’ right...
The Guardian· 23 hours agoBrad Homewood describes his first steps into a maximum security facility, where he spent the first three weeks of a two-month jail sentence, as intimidating. Days earlier, he and his partner ...
Stiff person syndrome is one-in-a-million – and these two people have it
The Guardian· 23 hours agoDavid Napier takes 129 tablets a week for a painful disorder that can feel like a twisting sensation inside his legs
Cannabis gummies like ‘a glass of wine with dinner’ for a growing number of Australians
The Guardian· 2 days agoRuth started taking cannabis gummies two years ago, “in a similar way to people having a glass of wine with dinner or a beer after work,” she says. Ryan says cannabis gummies have become a “fashionable new frontier” for drug use in Australia.
Extreme heat and some medicines can be a risky combo. Here's what to know
Associated Press via Yahoo News UK· 2 days agoExtreme heat can raise the danger of heat-related illnesses and threaten health in a more subtle way...
‘Childish and unprofessional’: art experts say Mona’s fake-Picasso stunt may undermine gallery’s...
The Guardian· 2 days agoArt experts have criticised Mona’s admission that the gallery hung fake Picassos as “childish” and...
‘It’s like looking at ghosts’: inside the Australian Museum’s extinction cabinets
The Guardian· 2 days agoMy guide to the cabinets is Dr Mark Eldridge, a geneticist and the museum’s manager of terrestrial vertebrates. Eldridge opens the first of the cabinets to reveal 11 wide, sliding shelves, each ...
'Singing'-Corner Vanes - Nature
Nature· 2 days ago'SINGING' in wind tunnels has been observed from time to time, and we recently had the opportunity of making a study of the phenomenon in the wind tunnel of the Aeronautical Department at the ...
Coastal Plankton of New South Wales - Nature
Nature· 2 days agoW. J. DAKIN has been working for nine years at the study of plankton off Sydney Harbour. A small yacht only was available, but with this, fortnightly samples of plankton with accompanying hydrographic ...
News and Views - Nature
Nature· 2 days agoTHE annual general meeting of the Australian National Research Council was held in Melbourne on Aug. 25–25. Particular attention was given to the financial position of the Council in relation ...
