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Regarding the Secret Life of Rabbits is a webcomic about life with rabbits that has been running for about a decade. Those with house rabbits will see much that is familiar in individual strips. The comic has a homepage with links to various content, from strips to a blog to merch. The strip is the creation of That Lady, as she styles herself in...

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Two fantasy stories in which characters notice and respond to little spells. "That seemed like a... a manageable amount of divinity." Sarah Blackwell (Dyce) (previously) writes a fun short piece in which Jenna gets something that, deep down, she's always wanted. "The possibility of danger overrides my manners, and my hand shoots out to grab her wrist.... She notices too much, and she thinks...

Halloween has come and gone as has the bonus weekend after we claim when the actual holiday falls mid-week. In most homes though, candy remains. What are your favorite/least favorite candies? What are the ones you scour the bowl to claim for yourself? What are the horrible things that end up ignored? What treats from your culture would surprise, horrify, and/or delight people from...

These farmers are saving tens of thousands of dollars for helping the planet. More than 40 per cent of Gary Kadwell's property is dedicated to revegetation after he planted tens of thousands of trees across his property. It is a move that has seen him save thousands of dollars and improve production levels.

Adam Smith, ya know the father of Capitalism, introduced a concept called the Impartial Spectator in his book The Theory of Moral Sentiments. This idea is about an internal, invisible judge that helps us evaluate our thoughts and emotions. Smith uses the metaphor of "the man within the breast" to describe this inner observer, which helps us figure out if our actions are moral...

Early voting results in the US tilt Republican, and later voting results tilt Democratic. Part of the reason is Red precincts are less populated, thus faster to count.YouTube Video from 2020 which correctly predicted that Trump would misrepresent the Red Mirage/Blue Shift effect as a plot against him The term "Blue Shift" (originally "Big Blue Shift") was coined in this paper by Foley in...

From the movie, not the stage musical of "Hair". Flesh Failures has been a favorite of mine for a long time. Can't really putmy finger on why. I bought the album when it came out in the 70's. Have seen several stage productions of the musical, but not the movie. This clip is of course from the movie. It didn't happen this way in...

Down the street, the owner of Vale das Freiras bottles sweet chestnut liqueur, its own kind of mountain hooch. From the café's second floor, I accessed a small chestnut museum with artifacts of a working life: baskets into which men thrashed off chestnut skins, millstones for grinding chestnut flour, a chestnut roaster. Madeira's earliest settlers brought the Castanea sativa variety with them to the...

Darwin's waste helps power 1200 houses a year as council creates circular economy. For the past 20 years, an energy project on the outskirts of Darwin has been quietly generating renewable electricity 24 hours a day and abating tens of thousands of tonnes of carbon dioxide.

We are leaving Spooky Season 2024 and entering the Horrifying last days of the US Elections, so here's another roundup of weird audio dramas! They may help distract you from the stress of the season (but please vote). Most of the series are audio dramas with paranormal elements, but anthologies, fantasy, science fiction, and the occasional thriller or mystery are included. I'm excoted because...

The Crash of the Hammer by Mira Ptacin is a long article about how a handful of Mainers shone the light on a noxious Nazi who'd bought property in their state, and ran him out of town, focusing on anti-fascist podcaster Crash Barry. That wasn't an isolated incident because, as reported last year by Eric Russell and John Terhune for the Portland Press-Herald, he...

Over the Garden Wall Tenth Anniversary stop-motion short Series Creator - Patrick McHale Stop Motion Animation - Aardman Animations Directors - Mikey Please and Dan Ojari Writers - Patrick McHale, Dan Ojari, and Mikey Please Producer - Alan Thorpe Executive Producer - Helen Argo, Sarah Cox, Patrick McHale Wirt - Elijah Wood Beatrice - Melanie Lynskey Greg - Collin Dean Narrator/Toymaker - Frank Fairfield

Community group launches legal action to protect Murray River flood plains in Kakadu of the south. A Victorian landcare group has filed legal proceedings against the Australian Federal government, challenging the approval of the Nyah flood plain project, alleging it is a dodgy water offset project that is environmentally damaging.

Winnipeggers recently celebrated the 50th anniversary of a Brian De Palma comedy/horror/rock opera movie spectacle that was a hit in the city (and in Paris) and a flop everywhere else in the world.

"The article illuminates ways in which sf functions as a resource for thinking concretely about multiple coming futures, in ways that can often eclipse so-called realist literature." ABSTRACT This article catalogs major recent trends in ecological science fiction (sf), focused primarily on sf published after the completion of N.K. Jemisin's paradigm-setting Broken Earth trilogy in 2017. Major subdivisions in the genre include dystopian and...

What if Minecraft except it's being generated in realtime and it's like those dreams where everything changes all the time and when you try to get close to a wall it becomes a fish. Oasis.

This literary subgenre has arguably been around since the dawn of written material but didn't emerge as a distinct sector of scholarship and pedagogy until roughly the 1980s. Remaining contested as a classifiable writing mode, it straddles the boundaries of personal essay, memoir, journalism, cultural criticism, food writing, nature writing, and more dominant umbrellas like fiction and poetry. All that said and done, it...

Why using straw panels to protect against bushfire was a no-brainer for this couple. Straw might seem like the last product you'd use if you wanted to protect your house from fire, but these straw panels, made from waste material, are a secret weapon against flames.

Jeffrey Epstein described himself as Donald Trump's "closest friend" and claimed intimate knowledge of his proclivity for sex, including cuckolding his best friends, according to recordings obtained exclusively by the Daily Beast. [...] Epstein spoke at length about Trump with the author Michael Wolff in August 2017, two years before being found dead in his jail cell. [...] On the tape Epstein can be...

Documentary explores evidence of Aboriginal Australia's pre-colonial trade with Asia. The Wangany Mala documentary delves into how Yolŋu people from north-east Arnhem Land and Macassans from modern-day Indonesia traded before colonisation.