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This article was originially published at The Conversation on May 7 and is replublished here under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Kate Lycett, Deakin University; Georgie Frykberg, Deakin University, and Warwick Smith, The University of Melbourne This … Continue reading
This article was originally published at The Conversation on April 20, 2026 and is republished under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Warwick Smith, The University of Melbourne The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) will look at the … Continue reading
This article is republished from The Conversation on March 19, 2026 under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Warwick Smith, The University of Melbourne Former Treasury Secretary and chair of the Henry Tax Review, Ken Henry, has described … Continue reading
Originally published in The Conversation on October 13, 2025 (just catching up a bit on updating this site). Warwick Smith, The University of Melbourne A new update to an influential economic theory called “Doughnut Economics” shows a global economy on … Continue reading
Jessica Riskin’s three greatest revelations while writing Power of Life
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As reports emerge of direct Gulf involvement in strikes on Iran, Bahrain is escalating a sweeping anti-Shia crackdown — arresting clerics, revoking citizenships, and threatening dissidents with death sentences.
The post From Bahrain to the UAE: Gulf States Expand Anti-Shia Crackdowns During Direct Strikes on Iran appeared first on MintPress News.
Landfills are actually excellent places to beef up your lifetime list
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For many Americans, data centers represent higher utility bills, noise pollution, tax giveaways, and very few local jobs — all to enrich distant tech giants.
From destroying hundreds of Israeli Merkava tanks to Iron Dome systems, Hezbollah’s $50 FPV drones are inflicting massive losses on Israel using weapons so cheap and simple that military analysts now fear they are changing warfare forever.
The post Hezbollah’s Cheap FPV Drones Are Making Israel’s High-Tech Military Obsolete appeared first on MintPress News.
My underwater dive to discover whether the beautiful ocean organisms are ever coming back
The post Coral Reefs Are at a Tipping Point appeared first on Nautilus.
Oh, I see you are reading this on a device. Perhaps you need to top off your battery? Do you need a cable for that? A USB cable? Because I have an assortment.
I have somehow accumulated several lifetimes’ worth of USB cables, and I cannot get rid of them.
How about a 1.0, 2.0, type A, A to B, B to C, or a micro to macro? Because somewhere in this plastic spaghetti, I have them. I have them all. Would you like one? Please, take a cable. I have too many, and it has become a burden, decades in the making. Please. Take a whole shoebox.
I have USB cables from before the year 2000. Vintage cables that barely did anything, transferring JPGs pixel by pixel from one drive to another. Sometimes, not all the data made it. That’s called the Angelfire’s share.
Actually, this one might not be a data cable. It might only be a charging cable. They don’t really tell you. You only find out five minutes before you need to present a PowerPoint to your entire company. Rest assured, we can find the right cable, though.
The MoD's Permanent Secretary warned of severe staff and equipment shortages, with some of the jets also grounded due to rust
Underground Artists is an ongoing comic by Ali Fitzgerald (Hungover Bear & Friends) that follows woodland creatures as they create art and search out whimsy in a bleak forest.
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AMC Global Media announced that the 2005-2022 Doctor Who revival seasons will stream exclusively in the U.S. on AMC+ beginning June 11th.
Ministers are considering a new report by a cross-party body which recommends closer alignment with European rules on limiting the use of harmful chemicals in our agriculture
Ministers will be forced to respond to the proposals for a new 'Media Sovereignty Act' after campaigners passed a key threshold
Dua Lipa
I have two lips.
Elvis Presley
Someone has flattened the elves.
Elton John
Where’s the bathroom?
Cher
I want it all.
Ed Sheeran
My eyebrows itch.
Bad Bunny
I am going to consume this carrot, and you are powerless to stop me.
John Denver
The bathroom is in Colorado.
John Cougar
The bathroom is a litter box.
John Legend
The bathroom doesn’t actually exist.
Lorde
Dear God, please help me learn to spell.
Johnny Rotten
The toilet smells bad.
Flo Rida
Meet my girlfriend, Ida Ho.
Johnny Cash
Got change for the pay toilet?
Eddie Money
Yes, I do.
Jon Bon Jovi
Party in the outhouse!
Carrie Underwood
The pallbearers have fallen.
Keith Richards
The keys are too expensive.
‘We’re not sure what it means or how it started’ – the enigmatic ritual that has existed in Switzerland for centuries
- by Aeon Video
Talk as much as you like about human rights, nothing will change until the architecture of global finance is reformed
- by Attiya Waris
Distorted and biased media coverage and short-sighted politics in Westminster have both prevented Starmer's Government from reaching its potential, argues Professor Chris Painter
Last week, the RBA hiked interest rates again and tried to claim the economy was overheating. One way that we assess that claim is via the wages pressure in the labour market. An economy that is running out of productive resources, typically sees firms competing for scarce workers and bidding up wages to attract them.…
Honey, I’m sorry I messed up our moment on the kiss cam.
I’m sorry I mouthed “That’s my sister!” and made a face like yuck while jerking my thumb at you, my loving wife of thirty-one years. I’m sorry I couldn’t look you in the eye and, instead, doubled-down and began talking loudly about our shared childhood, even though there is no audio on the kiss cam.
When you kicked my foot, and I realized you were mad, I’m sorry that I tried to make it up to you with a tongue-forward kiss, forgetting that the crowd believed you to be my sister. I’m sorry you had to hear 14,000 people make a collective noise of shock and disgust while your beautiful face was projected on the largest possible screen.
I’m sorry that this all happened after the screen was expanded in 2024.
I’m sorry that I stood up to address our section and let them know that we actually have a very loving and often erotic relationship. I understand now that I shouldn’t have offered to prove it.
I’m sorry I spent the entire fourth inning searching for another camera operator so that I could beg for a second chance.
A few months ago, I was tending to my newborn when across the room my phone pinged. I ignored it. Within a few minutes, however, continuing to do so became impossible, not just because of my compulsive urge to touch my phone every four seconds, but also because the device was seized by such a frenzy of notifications it threatened to buzz right off my dresser.
A wave of anxiety swept over me as I opened the kindergarten moms’ exploding group text—please, not more head lice.
But no! This was a good group-text freak-out. It was the call of America’s most beloved (nonprofit) multi-level marketing scheme.
One of my son’s classmates was selling Girl Scout cookies.
I loaded the order form and promptly set aside all New Year’s resolutions. It had been years since I’d had Girl Scout cookies, and my older two sons had yet to try them. I added my favorites to the cart, and then my eyes fell on the newest addition to the cookie lineup, Exploremores.
After "regenerating" from last week's host, Hannah Waddingham, Ncuti Gatwa learns the copyright-friendly way SNL UK secures hosts - and cast.