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Review: Microsoft Surface straddles divide Everyone who held the new Microsoft tablet device seems to have liked it, and the thin, go ever...

Why does Gina Rinehart like to buy into media companies? I have a pet theory about Fairfax, at least.  It might be as revenge for a far fr...

BBC - Travel - The Holy Land of beer  A surprising story here of how microbreweries are popular in Israel now, including a brand made by P...

The IVF lottery of joy and sorrow This article from The Age on the weekend was well worth reading.   It tells the story of the poor succes...

I'm feeling vaguely technically competent after working out how to run Linux on an old laptop from a usb drive.  I used Puppy Linux, and...

ABC radio personality Alan Saunders dies What sad news.  Alan Saunders has done a great job for years and years at Radio National, coverin...

Rabett Run: Carrick finds a mirror Eli Rabbet tells us how Bishop Hill and Watts Up With That note with disapproval some of the vile death...

Gov't aims to make all lighting LED-based by 2020 ‹ Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion

Blood pressure: Getting it right Here's a very detailed article on how blood pressure should be measured.  I didn't know there was...

BBC News - Three-person IVF 'is ethical' to treat mitochondrial disease Honestly.  Is there anything bioethicists or IVF doctors c...

Cardinal Marx urges Europe to move ‘beyond capitalism’ | CatholicHerald.co.uk Cardinal Reinhard Marx has called for a “social market econ...

Top risk of stroke for normal-weight adults: Getting under 6 hours of sleep The participants had no history of stroke, transient ischemic...

It's been a good weekend in Brisbane to be inside watching movies on TV, and I'm inspired to give mini reviews of a strange trio of ...

US spring warming off the charts The United States, excluding Alaska, Hawaii and overseas territories, had an average temperature of 57.1 ...

BBC News - Author Ray Bradbury dies, aged 91 At his best, Bradbury was a fantastically gifted writer, although I think his style was proba...

Indigenous 'solutions' just disempower us further - The Drum Opinion (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) I think it says a lot a...

I might take my binoculars to work so I can try projecting the sun and see the small dot of Venus myself.  But if that doesn't work, the...

Do You Really Want to Live Forever? - Reason.com It's rare that I recommend something from Reason.com (as far as I can tell, everythin...

Heaven and Mel review: Joe Eszterhas's e-book makes the anti-Semitic star sound worse than ever. Slate looks at a whole book Joe Eszte...