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Today’s good read

Total recall: the people who never forget

https://www.theguardian.com/science...-who-never-forget?WT.ec_id=NEWSDAILY-20170208

The Guardian

The long read
Total recall: the people who never forget
An extremely rare condition may transform our understanding of memory

Most have called it a gift but I call it a burden. I run my entire life through my head every day and it drives me crazy
Jill Price
Before Price, HSAM was a completely unknown condition.

 

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places a whole new meaning for the MORETON BAY BUGS
youd understand v, we have something in common the rest of the world cant replicate/likely dont know sweet FA what the F' we are talking about huh

never tried them myself tbh
imagine a couple of dozen on the Sunday bartbie tho mmmmmmm
after a few 4xxxs

looks like a damn stingray to me danf ABC?

Concerns after white spot found in Moreton Bay's wild prawns
White spot disease is detected in more than 100 wild prawns south of Brisbane, sparking fears about the prawn farm industry's recovery.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-...rs/8243994?WT.mc_id=newsmail&WT.tsrc=Newsmail
Flies are spreading antibiotic resistance from farms to people
cool,modern day Piccaso

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thinking of mates capture of the rare lungfisn in QLDS/Bown mary river, naughty Kiwi mate ..
tasted damn NICE THO!!!

Longest-living fish in captivity dies at Chicago aquarium
Granddad — an Australian lungfish aged in its mid-90s that was the longest-living fish in captivity — is euthanased after more than 80 years at a Chicago aquarium.

 

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ALWAYS LOVED Davids work
a modern day Picasso by my reckoning ..

 

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'smile'
puppies/dogs not kittens haha'

20 small dog breeds whose faces could melt even the coldest of hearts

http://www.sheknows.com/pets-and-an...m_medium=referral&utm_campaign=zergnet_843315

http://www.zergnet.com/news/843315/20-small-dog-breeds-that-are-the-cutest-on-the-planet

 

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Busy bees
Image 2 / 11 : Sunflower pollen covers a bee in Utrecht, Netherlands.

Busy bees
Image 7 / 11 : Honeybees cluster on top of the frames of an opened hive in an almond orchard Feb. 12, 2013, near Turlock, Calif. Bee brokers, beekeepers, and almond growers across the state say there is a shortage of healthy bees for this year’s almond pollination, which starts in mid-Februar

http://www.csmonitor.com/Photo-Galleries/In-Pictures/Busy-bees#329623

 

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Hundreds of whales dead after mass stranding on New Zealand beach

More than 400 whales strand themselves on a New Zealand beach with about three quarters of them reportedly dying in what authorities are describing as one of the worst whale strandings they have ever seen.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world...ales-after-400-stranded/ar-AAmNeJe?li=BBnbfcL

 

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Bid to save hundreds of beached whales in New Zealand

Published on Feb 10, 2017
A frantic rescue effort is under way to save about 400 whales stranded on a beach in New Zealand. Over 300 have already died after a mass beaching, the reason for which is a mystery.

 

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The Domino's effect: the shocking truth behind your $5 pizza
Australians eat a million Domino's pizzas every week. But, when you lift the lid, many of its people are struggling to make a crust. So how does this stockmarket juggernaut operate?

 

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#SundayDoco
In 1995, Dreamworld in Australia’s Gold Coast, acquired six captive-bred Bengal tiger cubs from California and set them up in a large, open public display area, ‘Tiger Island’, modelled on a similar facility in San Francisco, USA. Experience tigers in a completely new way as four cubs grow up to become part of a rare kind of family at Australian’s Dreamworld. Check out this week's Sunday doco—Awesome Pawsome

https://www.nzgeo.com/video/awesome-pawsome/

 

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ironically
as important as this is environmentally or more so conservationallly with NZ radio calling for volunteers requirerd to assisst more so than the deaths of the first 400

the NZ newspaper media in all there wisdom
when normally have a news alert posted OVERNIGHT decided to have none last night
damn incredible
even if its a a Sunday am, and maybe they dont hormally anyway huh duh but
so,we carry on with life/death

its no wonder i hear NZ news from overseas sources even if often inaccurate/sensationalist ha

Bid to save hundreds of beached whales in New Zealand

update


240, totally seperate pod stranding
uhmmm - 640

Pod of 198 whales stranded on New Zealand beac


http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/2/13/almost-200-whales-stranded-on-new-zealand-beach.html

 

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Recommended by
Carnage overnight as three separate pods of whales beach in three days

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/89303624/surviving-whales-to-be-left-alone-overnight

 

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suppose

cant expect credible news to come to a person
search neccessary often

heard a radio report yesterday our Australian Whale Watcher cousins were pissed off we never officially invited them over, who needs an invite brothers
anyway they said we wetre 'doing it wrong' as well

another report said
even if one flew into the nearest airport,assuming after landing at ChCh International,then a connecting to the closest domestic airport,it was still a 3 hour car drive,and 15 minute walk to get there .. fitness rerquirred i imagine

 

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geee we have such hopeless coverage when it comes to important local events
think its a dire lack of reporters cost savings
and happy to get there news off parent companys in Australia who youd think would send folk over, costs again huh

2 major news sources and the main one, NZ HERALD is worse than STUFF ha grrrr
no wonder i oh never mind
this is our LIVE Attempt, probably hours old

helicopter coverage probably taken at least 24 hours ago when it first happend, excluding the following pod of a reported 240 further mammal strandings


Whale rescue called off overnight
As Farewell Spit beach is cleared for the night and volunteers are sent home, 200 more whales have already beached at low

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Live: Re-stranding fear as hundreds of whales die in mass stranding at Farewell Spit

 

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Australian news our news will imitet this 6 hours later/maybe 12 hours with today being Sunday ha

Hundreds more whales beached in New Zealand hours after volunteers re-float survivors
A new pod of 240 whales beaches itself on a remote New Zealand beach just hours after weary volunteers managed to re-float a different group of whales following an earlier mass stranding.

 

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mebeeee worse than Trump?? hah

Massive killer hornets on deadly rampage heading to America

https://roadtrippers.com/stories/ma...m_medium=referral&utm_campaign=zergnet_818419

 

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200 whales now stranded a whole new pod, says DoC
same 2d lot as above

http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/324256/200-whales-now-stranded-a-whole-new-pod,-says-doc

Last 17 stranded pilot whales refloated as main pod heads toward sea
1:59 pm today
Rescuers have used the high tide to successfully refloat the remaining 17 pilot whales of those that stranded in Golden Bay yesterday.

Nearly 700 whales have stranded on or near Farewell Spit since late on Thursday and, of those, more than three hundred have died.

http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/natio...anded-whales-refloated,-main-pod-heads-to-sea

 

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plenty of Geckos on island
yaanooooo prehistoric creature

Newly Discovered Gecko's Giant Breakaway Scales Help It Flee Predators

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-...giant-breakaway-scales-help-it-flee-predators

wish we could do the same to get away from you know who .. not saying its name!

This new gecko species slips out of its scales to evade threats
Strange geckos that live on Madagascar have a unique way of escaping predators – and scientists – but that hasn't stopped researchers from studying the lizards. And now they have named the first new species in 75 years.


http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/20...cies-slips-out-of-its-scales-to-evade-threats

 

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human animals huh

Two men in custody over quokka attack caught on video
Two men are being interviewed after footage emerges of a man violently kicking a quokka, one of Western Australia's most loved and iconic marsupials, on Rottnest Island.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-...ed/8265710?WT.mc_id=newsmail&WT.tsrc=Newsmail


CLEAN UP

But hundreds of whales died on the beach and the Department of Conservation (DOC) cordoned off the bodies and urged the public to call them if they found whale carcasses that had floated away and washed up on nearby shores.

Whale stranding: Macabre clean-up of carcasses begins in New Zealand

Dead whales popped 'like balloons' in NZ
New Zealand authorities commence the clean-up of whales beached on Golden Bay, after volunteers worked tirelessly over the weekend to save hundreds.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-...ns/8265400?WT.mc_id=newsmail&WT.tsrc=Newsmail