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In a historic move, the Port Hedland Council in Western Australia voted 5-2 to call for the immediate suspension of Pfizer and Moderna COVID vaccines. · The motion is grounded in concerns over DNA contamination found in the vaccines, reportedly 145 times higher than the safety limits set by Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA). · The motion calls for all 537 local councils in Australia to be notified, along with registered…

The once-hyped lab-grown meat industry is collapsing and insiders are now admitting failure. Julian Mellentin, a food consultant, believes it will be remembered as “one of the biggest failures in food history.” · Even test marketing failed. People just don’t want to eat something that came from a bioreactor. · Lab-grown meat, originally backed by big names like Bill Gates and Richard Branson, promised to revolutionise farming but couldn’t…

A surprise discovery in a remote Australian desert region has given us new clues into the evolution of complex animal life, dating back more than 500 million years. The numerous fossils of the animal now known as Quaestio simpsonorum also show clear left-right asymmetry, concrete evidence of when complex lifeforms took shape on Earth. · This fossil find is significant, as the preservation of soft-bodied marine animals from the Ediacaran period…

Kinship among nations is not determined in such measurements as proximity, size, and age. Rather, we should turn to those inner things, those intangibles that are the real treasures free men possess. To preserve his freedom of worship, his equality before the law, his liberty to speak and act as he sees fit, subject only to the provision that he trespass not upon similar rights of others, the Londoner will fight. So will a citizen of Abilene. …

Jean Batten left for New Zealand from Kent, England, at 4.20 a.m. on 5 October 1936. Despite the early hour, a large media contingent gathered to see her off; Batten was already famous for her successful solo flights from England to Australia in May 1934, and to South America in November 1935. · Batten had installed two extra petrol tanks in her low-winged monoplane, a Percival (Vega) Gull. But to reach Australia she still had to land and…

Boom's XB-1 supersonic jet took its fifth test flight out of Mojave Air & Space Port on Oct 7th, 2024 setting a few new records in the process. The XB-1 is the one-third-scale platform that Boom is using as the foundation for its eventual Overture aircraft that aims to bring back commercialized supersonic passenger flight. · It's been over 20 years since the Concorde took its last flight. It went supersonic in 1969, able to fly at Mach 2 (about…

It may seem odd to suggest a 1960s TV sci-fi series can help solve the problem of overcrowded holiday hotspots. · But while the “holodeck’’ from Star Trek is still some way off, similar technologies are being successfully employed as a way to deal with overtourism.  · Overtourism is a phenomenon common in many tourist attractions all over the world and occurs when the tremendous increase in the number of visitors causes a decline in the quality…

Organic food has many health benefits. A new review in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition states how consuming food produced without harmful pesticides, artificial fertilisers or genetically engineered organisms is associated with a lower risk for health conditions such as obesity, diabetes and high blood pressure. · People who choose organic foods generally make other healthier lifestyle choices as well. · It's no surprise, then, that…

This delicious asparagus salad is the perfect Spring dish! It’s a great one to take to a potluck BBQ. · Ingredients · 400-500 g kumara skin on, cut into 3cm chunks · olive oil a drizzle · 2 tablespoons red wine vinegar · 2 teaspoons sugar · ½ red onion thinly sliced · 250 g asparagus or green beans, trimmed · ¼ cup flat-leaf parsley chopped · lightly toasted walnuts chopped · ¼ cup Parmesan shaved · Honey mustard dressing · 2 teaspoons…

Writer Dieuwe de Boer notes that New Zealand is facing low birth rates and looming population decline. He writes that while New Zealand has opted to rely on mass immigration: · “This only delays the inevitable and we will have to deal with the twin damages of a failed multicultural policy and declining population in coming decades.” · The real challenge lies in addressing birth rates that are nearing zero, and GDP per capita that has been…