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This food timeline started as a way to explore the revolution in Australian food that has occurred during the baby-boomers’ lifetime, but has since expanded to include more about the previous decades (and century) as well. Also included are overseas events and trends that had an impact here. The entries are brief, but there are lots of links if you want more information.

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Bi-coastal sea otters! Those eyes will charm you! Two adorable female southern sea otters, rescued off the coast of California, have made their New York City debut and will likely steal your heart. Pumpkin and Clover were rescued at young ages, deemed non-releasable, and cared for as pups by caregivers at other accredited aquariums prior to arriving at the New York Aquarium. They’re now settling in at the Sea Cliffs exhibit, where visitors can also enjoy exhibits featuring sea lions, harbor seals and penguins. “We are happy to provide a home for these rescued southern sea otters,” said Dr. Leigh Ann Clayton, director of the New York Aquarium, located in Coney Island, Brooklyn. “These two otters have incredible stories, and we are pleased to see how well they are settling into their new home.” The New York Aquarium has provided a home for 11 rescued sea otters since 1991. Southern sea otters (Enhydra lutris nereis), also known as California sea otters, live on the coast of California. Like all wildlife, they have an important role in the ecological health of the environment, according to the New York Aquarium.

Kamala Harris has raised over a billion dollars, mostly from small donors since July. The Harris campaign raised $97.2 million in the first half of October alone, while the Trump campaign raised only $16.2 million, after Harris shook up what was previously a more evenly matched cash race (Biden and Trump had raised $284.1 million and $217.2 million in total as of the end of June, respectively). The Harris Victory Fund—which raises money for both Harris’ campaign and Democratic groups—raised $1.2 billion this election cycle, according to a FEC filing released Thursday. While Harris had already garnered a fundraising lead over Trump, her donations shot up in September: NBC News first reported that Harris and affiliated committees had passed the $1 billion mark since she entered the race based on her September fundraising, which included $47 million the campaign reported raising in the 24 hours after Harris’ debate against Trump on Sept.

The Pentagon explored the AI software for research, but the new deal is the first by a combatant command whose mission is one of killing.

The post U.S. Military Makes First Confirmed OpenAI Purchase for War-Fighting Forces appeared first on The Intercept.

by Prabhat Patnaik* In his remarkable work The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, John Maynard Keynes said that “the ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else.” His putting only […]

The origins of consciousness according to Peter Godfrey-Smith.

The post Motion Made Minds appeared first on Nautilus.

Following a purge of at least 24 films, Netflix is facing calls to reinstate the movies.

The post Netflix Wiped Most of Its “Palestinian Stories” Collection — and Erased the Whole Thing in Israel appeared first on The Intercept.

. Einer der grundlegendsten Denkfehler in der heutigen Diskussion über Staatsschulden und Haushaltsdefizite ist, dass nicht zwischen verschiedenen Formen von Schulden unterschieden wird. Auch wenn es auf makroökonomischer Ebene notwendig ist, dass Schulden und Vermögenswerte einander ausgleichen, ist es keineswegs unerheblich, wer die Vermögenswerte und wer die Schulden besitzt. Lange Zeit war man zögerlich, die […]

In 1855, scientist Michael Faraday dashed off a letter to The Times in London about the "feculence" emanating from the River Thames.

The post And New Yorkers Think the Gowanus Canal Is Bad appeared first on Nautilus.

Statements by John Kelly, Trump’s former chief of staff, have made it nearly impossible for the media to avoid Hitler comparisons.

The post Mainstream Media Was Afraid to Compare Trump to Hitler. Now the Press Has No Excuse. appeared first on The Intercept.

That;s all well and good. But here’s a CNN piece from last month: “She’s a Marxist, communist, fascist, socialist,” Trump said at an Arizona rally on Thursday. “This is a radical-left, Marxist, communist, fascist,” Trump said while attacking Harris at a news conference on Friday. This wasn’t new rhetoric. “We have a fascist person running who’s incompetent,” Trump told Virginia residents during a campaign stop in August; at an Arizona rally in August, Trump said the true divide in American politics is between patriots with traditional values and “these far-left fascists led by Harris and her group.” And Trump has gone beyond saying that electing Harris would mean an end to American democracy. He has said this summer that electing Harris would mean “you’re not going to have a country anymore” and that “we’re not going to have a country left.” Not to mention him calling his political enemies vermin and saying they’re poisoning the blood of the country as well as a thousand other demeaning insults.

Trump’s Senate ally is blocking the appointment of the government’s top ethics chief, which could let Trump pick his own crony — and deliver huge gifts to Elon Musk and others.

“Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy everything that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.” That is from the Facebook page of the deputy commander of Israel’s 749 Combat Engineering Battalion (the 749) Lieutenant Colonel Adi Bekore. Did Continue reading »

The failure of last year’s referendum still troubles the country. The focus on the Voice to Parliament took attention away from the far more consequential question of truth telling, while paradoxically displaying how much it is still needed. The intense and prolonged debate displayed how historical interpretation still divides the country rather than providing the Continue reading »

“The events since October 7 have been absolutely overwhelming. And that means they are overwhelming for everybody, but particularly for the people who are experiencing them, those who are suffering. The victims. It’s regularly said that October 7 represented the greatest killing of Jewish people since the Holocaust. And that’s correct. What’s said less frequently Continue reading »

A lot has been written in the past few days about Senator Lidia Thorpe and her courageous act of speaking truth to power when she confronted coloniser, King Charles, in the colonial halls of Parliament. Yet amidst the commentary, one voice remains absent: the voice of the criminalised community. As a formerly incarcerated woman, I Continue reading »