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Drinking Cola will not give you Cancer Ian Musgrave looks like he might easily have a second career in Tolkien movies, but he writes reall...

It seemed time for my once a decade or so trip to the theatre, and what more popular show could I pick than War Horse? I liked the Spielbe...

A few weeks ago, I tried this salmon recipe from the Coles website: ginger and soy glazed salmon with buk choy.  The glaze and the salmon w...

New Revolutionary War books by Nathaniel Philbrick and Joseph Ellis ignore modern historical research. - Slate Magazine Not that I know mu...

From the Spectator, a very strange story of how a Schumann concerto came to be re-found and played: Robert Schumann met a wretched end. H...

Labor is sinking and the captains are to blame - The Drum (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) I've never thought much of Chris Uhlma...

So, the Australian today has an opinion piece by Peter Anderson , from the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, complaining that the...

How to Not Urinate for 11 Hours - James Hamblin - The Atlantic The answer, in the case of the Texas Senator who recently filibustered a pr...

Whale carcass may be towed out to sea to save pod | Environment | guardian.co.uk The story is about some stranded killer whales up at Fras...

PS, the face came from here .   By the time you squash it in, it's sorta hard to tell, I guess.

Europe’s politicians vote to resuscitate carbon market : Nature News Blog From the link: The world’s largest carbon-trading market may aw...

Animal master-burglars: Cockatoos 'pick' puzzle box locks (w/ Video) From the article: A team of scientists from Oxford Universi...

There was quite a bit of interest amongst people who follow the state of the Arctic ice cover earlier this year when a large part of it bec...

Honestly, it's not just because I don't want Tony Abbott to win, and everyone knows I have long disliked Kevin Rudd and did not thin...

I seem to have found a way to delete comments by accident when using my tablet last night.   Two were disappeared, but it wasn't intenti...

Poland: A dark side of the Catholic Church | The Economist Someone writing in The Economist in May this year: One of the three items als...

Acal Energy says its new hydrogen fuel cell is good for 300,000 miles From the company's press release: "Degradation has long he...

Today it's aging economist Maurice Newman with a litany of crap to the theme of "climate change is bunk" in The Australian.  ...

Tony Abbott's paid parental leave policy: high cost, low benefit | Business | guardian.co.uk Go to the link for a cool, calm explanati...