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For those of you with little kids who may be concerned about Santa's progress, the NORAD Santa Tracker is now available to track Santa across the world. Use this link: https://www.noradsanta.org/en/map I can report that Santa is currently on schedule. OB

9 December 2023 2023 is the hottest year in recorded history, with a month to spare. Scientists have confirmed 2023 will be the hottest year on record, with the official declaration from climate change service Copernicus, run by the EU, made with a month to spare. The startling heat records...

6 April 2023 Gun Deaths among US Children and Teens Rose 50% in Two Years This is a summary of a Pew Research Centre article, dated April 2023, based on child gun mortality data from the Centre for Disease Control (CDC). Gun deaths includes homicides, suicides and accidental death directly...

Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)- 2022 results Every three years the Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD) organises a series of standard tests for 700,000 plus 15-year-olds across 80+ countries. The tests, known as the Programme for International...

1 Oct 2023 Trump calls for store robbers to be shot in speech to California Republicans Former president and frontrunner for GOP nomination also warns ‘this country will die’ if Joe Biden wins election, Donald Trump called for shooting store robbers on Friday in a bleak speech to California...

29 Sept 2023 Trump loses bid to delay New York civil fraud trial A New York appeals court has rejected former President Donald Trump's bid to delay a civil fraud trial against him in a case that leaves his business empire in jeopardy. The decision paves the way for a trial to begin next...

28 Sept 2023 Astronaut and cosmonauts return to Earth after getting stuck in space for more than a year. A Nasa astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts returned to Earth on Wednesday after being stuck in space for just over a year. American Frank Rubio set a record for the longest US spaceflight –...

15 Sept 2023 Nasa unveils findings of study into UFOs Nasa has revealed the findings from its long-awaited report into UFOs – and says there is ‘no reason to conclude existing reports have an extraterrestrial source’. The study was conducted by its Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP)...

12 Sept 2023 Donald Trump seeks disqualification of US judge in case over alleged attempt to overturn election result Donald Trump has filed a motion seeking to disqualify US District Judge Tanya Chutkan from presiding over the criminal case in which he is charged with trying to overturn his...

23 August 2023 India Lands on the Moon India has become the first country to land near the Moon's south pole, just days after a Russian spacecraft crashed trying to reach the area. The spacecraft Chandrayaan-3 will now spend two weeks looking for frozen water, which could support astronauts...

28 JUNE 2023 Shattering the myth of men as hunters and women as gatherers …A common belief holds that, among foraging populations, men have typically hunted animals while women gathered plant products for food. However, mounting archaeological evidence from across human history and prehistory...

Out of curiosity I put the same question: What is salvation and how do I get it? to two different Artificial Intelligence systems - Chat GPT (Bing) and Bard (Google). I've put both answers below. Are they both correct? Which is the better answer? OB Chat GPT (Bing AI) What is salvation and...

20 JUNE 2023 Lab-grown synthetic human embryos lead to calls for regulation Scientists have used stem cells to create structures that resemble human embryos in the lab, in a first that has prompted calls for stricter regulation in the rapidly advancing stem cell research. Several different...

7 JUNE 2023 Australia Phasing Out Cheques by 2030 (Australian) Treasurer Jim Chalmers announced on Wednesday morning that his government would be moving to phase out cheques by no later than 2030. "We know that usage of cheques has been declining," he said. "This is largely because digital...

Can anyone explain the rationale behind the threads ranked under the heading? When I first saw it, I assumed that new threads were rated using an algorithm measuring reactions to the OP based on frequency of reply or frequency of viewing within a given period of time - or maybe both?. After...

Donny Does Downunder I have just been informed that Donald Trump Junior will be doing a whirlwind speaking tour of Australia starting on 9 July. According to the promotional blurb Don's tour will be 'live' (?). Donny will do a series of one-night stands starting in Sydney on 9 July, followed...

The ongoing FiveThirtyEight Trump favourability poll is below. It looks like there has been a steady decline since early May. This poll is up to 8 June so would presumably not yet include the effect of the latest indictment. https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/favorability/donald-trump/

ABC NEWS 22 MARCH 2023 ACT government tables Australia's first laws to stop irreversible intersex surgery on children The ‘I’ in 'LBTQI+' stands for ‘Intersex’. Intersex people are born with sex characteristics such as genitals, gonads, hormones or chromosome patterns, that do not fit typical...

*8 JUNE 2023 Pence attacks Trump as he challenges his ex-boss in 2024 White House race June 7 (Reuters) - Former Vice President Mike Pence, who loyally served Donald Trump for four years, on Wednesday blasted his former boss for the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol as he launched his campaign...

THE GUARDIAN 8 JUNE 2023 Australia to Ban Nazi Symbols The (Australian) federal government will ban Nazi symbols with a punishment of up to a year in prison but it will not ban the Nazi salute, the attorney general, Mark Dreyfus, has revealed. Dreyfus will introduce a bill next week to make...