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Dampier island's transfer to traditional owners to support World Heritage bid, further its protection. Less than 10 kilometres from the Burrup and its billions of dollars of industry, West Intercourse Island will join Murujuga National Park to protect it from future industrial development.An island off the coast of Western Australia's north-west has been handed back to traditional landowners as part of plans to strengthen...

Here are 7 translations and 7 interviews with the Lebanese author of the novel Gate of the Sun, which portrayed the lives of Palestinian refugees.

Motors and specially designed legs-- it brings your snacks to you. How it was designed and made

Forty years ago today, Miami Vice premiered on NBC. Born out of writer-producer Anthony Yerkovich growing awareness of the practice of asset forfeiture (and not a memo by Brandon Tartikoff that said "MTV cops"), and originally imagined as a movie, the five-season, 114-episode show would revolutionize television, with People magazine saying it was the "first show to look really new and different since color...

Portugal's Defense Minister Nuno Melo has reignited a long-standing territorial dispute, claiming that the Spanish town of Olivenza rightfully belongs to Portugal and asserting that the country will not relinquish its claim. [AA]Located in Spain's Badajoz province, about 60 kilometers (37.2 miles) from the Portuguese border, Olivenza has been a point of contention between the two nations for centuries. Speaking to the reporters on...

In Britain, solar farms can benefit wildlife.A 2016 paper found that solar farms tended to have more species of plant, insect and bird than equivalent farm fields. Earlier research from 2013 seemed to support this finding: when compared to the surrounding farmland, which the solar farm used to be a part of, greater numbers of butterflies and bees were found on the site. More...

Over on Youtube "Haiku Beta 5 is OUT!" Action Retro shouts Said right: "Be Oh Ess," Beta 5 brings huge upgrades in stabilityIt's great advantage Has long been responsiveness Its UI runs well A useful option To make use of old hardware Modestly it runs If you want to try I suggest VirtualBox Or else KVM If you try VB To Other (64 bit)...

How do you find the life expectancy of a California condor? Google it. Or the gross national product of Morocco? Google it. Or the final resting place of Tom Paine? Google it. There was a time, however—not all that long ago—when you couldn't Google it or ask Siri or whatever cyber equivalent comes next. You had to do it the hard way—by consulting reference...

The former president is safe after a shooting at his Florida golf course Sunday, and officials believe an armed person was trying to target Trump, according to sources briefed on the matter. A local sheriff's office says it has taken a person into custody after the gunfire at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach. Please post more as you find it, I'm...

Jane Fonda on Jimmy Kimmel, Sept 11, 2024 After a short exchange about Kamala Harris and the Orange Man (her words), she makes a compelling and immediate case for really waking up to the climate crisis."When we vote for a president we are not marrying them." "We cannot afford to lose four more years to the climate crisis." Jane Fonda Climate Pac Jane Fonda...

Billionare lifestyle parody Gstaad Guy's (Constance, and sometimes Colton) ongoing (TikTok, Instagram) series on behaviors from men who should immediately be dumped à la poubelle (all videos on TikTok). "Although they are fake people, they are very authentic to their values and characters. It's either excellent or it's à la poubelle . . . "

Native title claim spanning 95,000 square kilometres (23,475,011 acres) recognised by Federal Court in Western New South Wales. In an open-air courtroom set up in a nature reserve at Cobar, families from the Ngemba, Ngiyampaa, Wangaaypuwan and Wayilwan peoples secure one of the largest native title claims in the region's history.

The data on extreme human ageing is rotten from the inside out . Ig Nobel prize winner Saul Justin Newman on his paper Supercentenarians and the oldest-old are concentrated into regions with no birth certificates and short lifespans.In general, the claims about how long people are living mostly don't stack up. I've tracked down 80% of the people aged over 110 in the world...

Watch the Greenough river in Western Australia come to life as you read the stories of the people who celebrate the return of the water flow. Odyssey Story Format (mix of images, text and video) on the ABC.

Greg Morton can do all the voices. I always wonder how people can do this kind of imitation. Not just one, but so many!

It seems unlikely that a system relying on hallucinated base rates and numerical simulations goes all the way to outperforming (half-decent) human forecasters in any meaningful way. from Contra papers claiming superhuman AI forecasting [Lesswrong]

Starting in 2017, NW Natural promoted the potential of "renewable natural gas" to counter the movement to ban new fossil gas hookups and electrify residential heating and cooking. A trove of more than 100 insider documents shows that NW Natural has done a lot less than promised in their Less We Can campaign.The documents, obtained by the Energy and Policy Institute, and reported by...

Nausea-inducing cane toad baits help freshwater crocodiles avoid poisonous pest. New research shows taste-aversion therapy helps hundreds of freshwater crocodiles avoid poisoning by cane toads spreading across the Kimberley.

Produced by Sara Gibbs and Elsa Williams, The Daily Tism is an Onion-like parody news site produced by autistic people, poking fun at themselves, for themselves and people who want to laugh with them. Some headlines: "Autistic Woman Who Always Guesses Plot Twist Carefully Selects Which Movie To Ruin," "Pasta Dish Murdered By Sauce and Cheese Being Mixed In," and "Austic Man Concentrating So...

Do you like the New York Times' Spelling Bee? Try Eightile for a [timed] variant, in Spanish or English.

The Conversation: Earthquake scientists detected an unusual signal on monitoring stations used to detect seismic activity during September 2023. We saw it on sensors everywhere, from the Arctic to Antarctica. We were baffled – the signal was unlike any previously recorded. Instead of the frequency-rich rumble typical of earthquakes, this was a monotonous hum, containing only a single vibration frequency. Even more puzzling was...

Senay Boztas (The Art Newspaper, 09/03/2024), "Rijksmuseum acquires controversial early botanic book on Suriname" (ungated): "Maria Sibylla Merian's 1705 Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium [Latin, Dutch, Dutch counterproof] is considered a 'high point' of early printing ... More recently, the contemporary artist Patricia Kaersenhout superimposed images of prominent Carribbean-born people onto images from the book, and made a series responding to the 'erasure' of local people's...