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    Laughter Consciousnes: A new paradigm

    http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/2006/1753373.htm I kind of get the slapstick humour and different consciousness link and the idea of cognitive respite is well funny but the prison joke? Lame as... :P
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    Big Monsters? 'No Way' says short boffin

    Spotted this while doing some research into big things Full article here:- http://fathom.lib.uchicago.edu/2/21701757 And on the speculative fiction side...:- http://www.abc.net.au/news/arts/articulate/200609/s1731642.htm Makes this sort of thing impossible Anyway, I stll believe...
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    Geeks and Nerds Unite to Debunk Ghost & Vampire Tropes

    more detail:http://abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1725868.htm
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    Human Brain Size (& Evolution; Intelligence; Etc.)

    http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200608/s1704016.htm So nothing much has changed in the last 50 000 years... :P
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    Watch out Westies! -Big cat thriving in Sydney

    http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200607/s1698320.htm Pawprint Cast Wait until it takes down a bogan!
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    Skippy the flesh-eating kangaroo of ancient times

    http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200607/s1684566.htm :shock: I think I ran over something like that on the way back from Coober Pedy! A galloping kangaroo with canines... :eek!!!!:
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    The dead album: Spectre of John Lennon to record again...

    http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200603/s1594181.htm New album title? 8)
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    Cuttlefish

    Cuttlefish! Amazing creatures. Photofore (sp?) skin. Have seen the spawning/ meeting grounds near (sort of, in the Australian form of near) adelaide.. Cuttlefish get a bit boisterous (as in riots of color) when they get together... 8)
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    Another Big Telescope...

    Overwhelmingly Large Telescope? Crikey!
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    Tropical Disease: Weapons potential

    I can't help noticing that it's a health research scientist that's involved. Surely a contradiction. :? Tropical diseases are no fun, why on Earth weaponise them? It's absurd! :(
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    Interspecies recycling on its way

    :)
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    Old star not quite embers

    he Bet it's Grumpy as well! :D Dont these sorts of things explode or something?
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    DNA rule book about to be revised (again!)

    Crikey! RNA, templating and flaw fixes, where have I heard that before... :)
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    Murchison, Western Australia. A Radio Astronomy quiet zone

    Rabbits and other animals generating interference? How'd they do that... :D
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    Boffins flying high remotely from Woomera

    NOTE:Picture at link above (Could be an 'artist's impression' though) Woomera: Home of the third satelite launch (into space) ever!
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    Blind People 'Seeing': Human Echolocation / Blindsight

    :shock: That Amygdala. Interesting bit of the brain, really. Sort of reiterates just how little we know of visual processing. Even though it's one of the most actively researched senses. :shock: Not shock, just eyes
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    Remains of sunspot explosion: a sun-splashed night sky! (app

    :eek!!!!: Hopefully it wasn't THAT big a bang. Sorry, couldn't resist the wordplay in thread title...
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    Crikey, it's Ghostrider!

    A Ghostrider film ok but Nick Cage...? :( And Baza's version of Alex the great? No singing please! :)
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    A Real Galaxy Quest

    I guess there is not much chance of the Milky Way being eaten. ...Or is there? (Great, now I have something else to worry bout) :(
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    Harold The Sheep Escapes Dinner Plate Fate

    Go sheep! (Live exports suck!) Nice to have a reporter who knows MP! :)
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    The Smell / Stench Of Death

    Sadly this sort of thing goes on all 'round the world. What's wrong with our communities? (Not to mention poorly trained and uncaring poice officers...) :(
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    Another 'new science' required...

    :eek!!!!: :rolleyes: Surely its not that hard... :)
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    Prolonged Erections From Irukandji Jellyfish Stings

    Look forward to some interesting Spam in the near future!? :rolleyes:
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    Australian Megalithic Sites? (New South Wales; Bathurst)

    *{'Spash apologises in advance if this is posted in the wrong thread}* Doing a bit of research/leisure and have come across a reference to a Stonehenge type formation in Bathhust (Australia!), of all places. Anyone heard of this before? Credible? Bull***t? :)
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    Christian Kidneys are better!

    :eek!!!!:
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    New toy for Australian Scientists

    Not that I'll ever get a chance to play with it...:(
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    Australian UFO Sightings (General; Miscellaneous)

    This thread has been established to consolidate miscellaneous UFO reports and commentary specifically relating to Australia. The following independent threads contain substantive content on specific incidents: Fred Birmingham's Vision (Airship Sighting / Contact?; Australia; 1868)...
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    Crimes Involving Fossils

    Plenty more Dinosaur smugglers to go :(
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    Cornflakes and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

    Interesting line of research there... :)
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    Runaway Vehicles (Land, Sea & Air)

    Runaway Heavy Machinery ! Not Fortean but Odd all the same Seeing as how this happened near where I live I though I'd mention it :)
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    When Machines Attack Or Tech Torments

    Runaway Heavy Machinery ! Not Fortean but Odd all the same Seeing as how this happened near where I live I though I'd mention it :)
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    A New, Old Period (In Geological History)

    The Ediacaran epoch. Lovely place, The Flinders Ranges, even now -and it LOOKS, old and FEELS ancient. What a landscape... :)
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    The work of Mick Farren

    Having just finished reading Mick Farren'[s Underland It occured to me that apart from containing a S***load of fortean themes (Vampires, Nazi flying saucers, alusions to conspiracie and the like) it was a reasonable read... Is this a good example of fortean inspired writing? Any...
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