Orange Planet Bad
Donald Trump might not have had a great success at the midterms, as predicted winning some and losing some, but the Mother Nature seems to be celebrating Donald Making Earth …
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Call another Doctor Doctor
Back in September, Australia’s very own Dr Siobhan O’Dwyer went viral and became an international news after complaining on Twitter that a Qantas air crew member (gender unspecified) referred to …
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I swiped on a sexbot
Well, not really. If I did, it would have made for a fascinating blog post, and I, no doubt, would have had a more enthralling online conversation than many one …
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Is the internet making you miserable?
Kanye West seems to think so, at least in regards to the social media: “There are people who are committing suicide due to not getting enough likes,” Ye tweeted Saturday …
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The Weakest Generation
Depression, mental illness, chronic stress and anxiety, and self-harm are all serious and often tragic and devastating problems for the sufferers and those around them. Sadly, and counter-intuitively, they seem …
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The miracle of the ordinary
I had an epiphany the other day. I was driving to my home, in the inner north of Brisbane, from Archerfield on the southside of the town. The route is …
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Starving people to save them from starving
Policy-making, including in the area of environment (particularly in the area of environment) requires less emotion and more cost-benefit analysis, writes the “skeptical environmentalist” Bjorn Lomborg: When a “solution” to …
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What on Earth is a Kalashnikov electric car?
I know there is Christmas in July, but is there an April Fools’ Day in August? Russian arms maker Kalashnikov on Thursday presented its new electric car inspired by a …
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Out of your league
New research from the University of the Obvious sheds light on our online dating habits: Most people who use online dating websites seek partners who are out of their league, …
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When Blue Planet turns into Blueberry Planet
God bless science – thanks to Anders Sandberg, a computational neuroscientist at the University of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute we now know what would happened if the ball of space …
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Brain don’t lie: progressives less tolerant
A fascinating new study from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln: In a new study, University of Nebraska-Lincoln researchers found that self-identified liberals were more likely to notice when candidates deviated from the …
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