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Enjoy, Americans, and happy holiday Americans throw another Aussie lamb on the barbie for Independence Day The US has become Australia's most valuable overseas market for lamb, with exports rising sharply over the last two years to be worth $988 million in 2021. In the year to date, from...

At least that's what some Texan educators want to teach children. I guess this is uncritical race theory. A group of Texas educators proposed using the term 'involuntary relocation' to describe people sold into slavery in K-2 curriculum - CNN "A workgroup developing a second-grade social...

'Like a human the size of Mount Everest': This bacteria is so big you can see it without a microscope At a whopping 1 to 2 centimetres long, this giant microbe is bigger than a fruit fly and can be seen with the naked eye, ... "It's about 5,000 times bigger than most bacteria,"

Anyone who displays a Nazi symbol in Victoria now faces up to a year in jail Those who do so could face up to 12 months in jail and a $22,000 fine. I do like living here. Interesting tidbit: the Nazi symbol — known as the Hakenkreuz

What we know about new, potentially lethal cases of hepatitis in children around the world "Nearly 170 children across 11 countries have become sick in recent weeks with mysterious and severe cases of hepatitis and at least one child has died, according to the World Health Organization (WHO)...

Title says it all Anti-Vax Aussie Billionaire Battling COVID Buys Hitler’s Car As the Chaser (an Australian satirical comedy group) aptly tweeted, "how do we compete with this?" FYI He's currently got COVID pneumonia, and he runs and is the major funder for his own political party.

Take that Yanks. Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, Oi, Oi, Oi. Live: Ash Barty wins historic Australian Open title with stunning second-set fightback First Aussie women to win the Aussie open in 44 years.

Not sure how this goes in other countries, but for the first time in Australia the Catholic Church has been found legally liable for the pedophile priests in its ranks. 'Legal first': Catholic Church ruled vicariously liable for paedophile priest's historic abuse "It marks for the first time...

Sweden's famous 'Yule Goat' set on fire ... again A giant straw Yule goat in the Swedish town of Gavle, 200 miles northwest of Stockholm, was set ablaze on December 17 for the first time in five years, reviving a long-running tradition of locals illegally attempting to torch it and authorities...

Thanks to renewables, 'insanely cheap electricity' is coming. But when? Last Saturday in South Australia, renewables accounted for a staggering 135 per cent of total demand, breaking the world record for the proportion of solar and wind supplied to a large grid. As a result of all this excess...

Vaccine Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year 2021 "Interest in the definition of this word was intense in the past year: lookups for vaccine increased 601% year-over-year from 2020." Excellent. Roll on 2022.

Meat-eating vulture bees evolved special gut bacteria to feast on flesh - CNN "The vast majority of bees feed on pollen and nectar, but certain species have evolved to feast on meat, substituting dead animal carcasses for flower meadows" Nice.

Marrakesh the goat now the GOAT, fetching Australian record $21,000 price at sale A couple from Cobar have rewritten the record books by paying the new top national price for a goat. "He's a very nice goat..." Ms Mosely said.

Growing share of childless adults in U.S. don’t expect to ever have children Some 44% of non-parents ages 18 to 49 say it is not too or not at all likely that they will have children someday, an increase of 7 percentage points from the 37% who said the same in a 2018 survey. Meanwhile, 74% of...

https://nordpass.com/most-common-passwords-list/ So there's 103 million people whose password is 123456 Which reminds me of the joke I set my password to "incorrect", so if I get it wrong, my computer tells me my password is incorrect.

DEFINE_ME We observed a substantial reduction in cervical cancer and incidence of CIN3 in young women after the introduction of the HPV immunisation programme in England, especially in individuals who were offered the vaccine at age 12–13 years. The HPV immunisation programme has successfully...

lol, clickbait. So anyway as I have mentioned I am a biomedical researcher, and as such I am a member of researchgate which is a place to collate your research output as well as receive notifications of when others cite your research, which leads me to the email I received just now... "you...

'It does look like it's an Australian record': Giant hailstones fall on North Queensland "may have created the largest hailstones seen in Australia since records began." "We've seen some convincing images of hail up against a tape measure of 16cm," "Hail that size has a terminal velocity of...

So recently the Australian High Court (our equivalent of SCOTUS) ruled that groups that post stuff to facebook are legally responsible for the comments others post about said stuff. If you run your local football club's Facebook page, you need to pay attention to the High Court's latest ruling...

So our Prime Minster, Scotty from Marketing, has added another blunder to his bag-o-blunders by scrapping an existing 90 billion dollar diesel based submarine fleet upgrade (on which several billion has already been spent and who knows how many billions more will be paid for the contract break)...