Random thoughts

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and ive been thinking
your next/hopeless PM/NOT SCOMO
will
wither/kowtow to CHINA
FAR SUPERIOR THAN AUS,in the grand scheme of things ... huh

esp
after what GERMAANYS done
YOU HAVE all got the shits,re bidens likely win haha

HOWVCAN NLOSERS EVER WIN!

 

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A mesmerizing 10,000-shot video captures the dramatic life cycles of several species (Owen Reiser)
Watch an Amazing Time-Lapse of Growing Mushrooms
A mesmerizing 10,000-shot video captures the dramatic life cycles of several species
By Corryn Wetzel

yep
a most favourite foodstuff
eat with caution
BEHAVE HUMANS,FORAGE wisely,you dfevils

Watch an Amazing Time-Lapse of Growing Mushrooms | Science | Smithsonian Magazine

 

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AAP Image/Supplied by RSPCA SA
3 billion animals were in the bushfires’ path. Here’s what the royal commission said (and should’ve said) about them
Ashleigh Best, University of Melbourne; Christine Parker, University of Melbourne; Lee Godden, University of Melbourne

The royal commission made welcome and necessary recommendations around helping wildlife after hazards. But it's not enough to focus only on response.

Han Yuanyuan
How midnight digs at a holy Tibetan cave opened a window to prehistoric humans living on the roof of the world
Bo Li, University of Wollongong; Dongju Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Qiaomei Fu, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Zenobia Jacobs, University of Wollongong




bring it on home to me

 

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We asked 24 women to reflect on images of 'hot' men — and it's good news for those with 'dad bods'

its
good news week,apparently
greatest farce4 on earth'partially completed etc
now
time for this

i wonder if woman get more flustered than men,when they cat have what they want
well,thats a bit mean,never mind

 

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heres looking at you
keep that heat away frokm me huh'

2

 

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refuse to say a thinjg ha

Pets Can Help Seniors Stay Happy and Healthy
For some reason everyone is under SO MUCH STRESS right now. The Wall Street Journal has reported that looking at photos of cute baby animals reduces stress and makes you more productive, and Treehugger reports that for older people, "interacting with animals may be more beneficial than spending time with other people." I usually build the newsletter from the day's posts but they are a bunch of downers and we could all use a little stress relief, so I am just going to go into the archives for cute animal photos and put that other stuff up on Monday, when we all are possibly feeling better.
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Meet the London Zoo's New Baby Sloth
There are lots of animal lovers here at TreeHugger. Mary Jo is no sloth, she is our queen of animal stories.
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Fostering Puppies During the Pandemic
Mary Jo even takes them in and fosters them. "If we were going to hunker down, I wanted to share our space with some little guys in need. So far, I’ve had seven puppies since March. They have been the best stress busters ever."
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Labradoodles Are More Poodle Than Lab
Study helps deepen understanding about how breeds are formed.
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Why Do Cats Love Paper and Plastic So Much?
Then there is Lindsey, another pet lover on the team with a bunch of dogs that crash our Zoom meetings.
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13 Things You Didn't Know About Cat Whiskers

 

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PHOTOGRAPH BY GERRY ELLIS, MIDEN PICTURES, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION

an
heres lookingv at byou too
every right to be proudd

8 Marvelous Facts About Moose
Here's a new Fact 9: Canadians are told to stay one moose apart for social distancing.

 

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getting more into our root vegetables as btiome gpoes by

related,omminous,howeve
we are animals anyway
no reason to think/feel otherwise


and,life

 

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NZ Geo,obviously feel close to birdlife this weekend huh

The Weekender // When birds get sick

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When birds get sick
In February, James Chatterton placed his stethoscope among the green, fragrant feathers of Margaret-Maree and listened to her breathing. Up close, kākāpō have an unusual, pleasant smell, a mix of soft perfume and forest floor.

The New Zealand Centre for Conservation Medicine at Auckland Zoo had temporarily become a kākāpō hospital. Sick birds convalesced in tall, dimly lit cages stuffed with native plants. As lead vet, it was Chatterton’s job to decide whether they were well enough to go home to Whenua Hou/Codfish Island.

Diseases can take a huge toll on wild animals and hasten rare species towards extinction. Scientists, vets and conservation volunteers are teaming up to try to beat the viruses, parasites and fungi threatening some of our rarest birds. Keep reading...

The board game for birders
On the eve of the first COVID-19 lockdown, New Zealand Geographic journalist Kate Evans started playing the board game Wingspan with members of her bubble. "The other board game I’d bought for Christmas, Pandemic, was losing its appeal," she writes. "Wingspan, however, was perfect."

The aim is to attract a diversity of bird species to your nature reserve and obtain the most points by winning different challenges. It’s complex and strategic enough to be incredibly absorbing, and with hundreds of cards it’s different every time you play. Keep reading...

Hoiho need to eat better
A study of penguin poo suggests Otago’s declining hoiho are struggling to find food in their hunting grounds off the South Island coast.

The poo also revealed that what the penguins eat has changed significantly since the 1980s, the last time their diet was studied. Back then, the birds ate a varied diet of squid and small fish, including red cod, blue cod, āhuru, and opalfish.

The new study showed the hoiho diet is now dominated by blue cod, and that many of those other fish, once common, are now gone. Keep reading...

Visit the Photographer of the Year exhibition
The 2020 Photographer of the Year exhibition is open at the New Zealand Maritime Museum on the corner of Quay and Hobson Streets. See all 40 finalists and admire the winners.

Who's your pick for Bird of the Year?
Voting closes on Sunday for Bird of the Year, the cut-throat competition that pits godwit against gannet, kōtare against kōtuku. Who will be the victor in 2020? Last year, hoiho took the title, and before that, kererū, kea and kōkako have all won the crown.

First, know your birds. From boomers to chirpers, tweeters, honkers, noise shouters and the almost-silent rifleman, we've collected our very best stories about New Zealand’s very weird bird life. See all our stories here...

 

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WANKERS AUSTRALIA
youve let your govt
STATE PREMIERS DICTATE TO YOU for the entire year
no sympathy
hope they keep there f'kn borders shut,for another few yeasrs
seems,you wont care
safe huh,bullshit,no safer

Welcome back, Australia: Sandgropers embrace reunification as hard border

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Welcome back, Australia: Sandgropers embrace reunification as hard border falls
Seven months ago, Western Australia slammed shut its doors to the rest of the nation. Now it's on the road back to rejoining the rest of the country, but not everyone's sure it's going in the right direction.

It was supposed to be the 'coronavirus election'. But voting patterns tell a different story
While all eyes were fixed on the presidential election, new daily coronavirus cases in the United States reached an all-time high. And with almost every metric trending in the wrong direction, it's yet to be seen if the nation will be able to overcome political fault lines to find a way forward.

Morrison made global news this week for all the wrong reasons — but look behind the headlines
There were many threads to the Four Corners story about the culture of Canberra, but one thread points to an underlying problem we seem to see over and over again, writes Laura Tingle.

Leave campaign director Dominic Cummings quits role as Johnson's top adviser
Dominic Cummings, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's chief adviser, has quit his role at Downing Street after an internal battle over who should be Mr Johnson's chief of staff.

The PM has endorsed a national COVID-19 vaccine plan. So who gets it first and how much will it cost?
Here's what we know so far about how a successful COVID-19 vaccine would be rolled out in Australia and who will get it first.

It's my whole job to keep on top of US politics, and I struggled to cast my own ballot this election
In every single election, an unknowable number of Americans want to vote but never learn how to register, receive proper identification, find their polling place or have time to wait in long, long lines, writes Emily Olson.

The mysterious death of Nora Quoirin: Did the teen wander from her resort or was she abducted?
Nora was on the trip of a lifetime with her family at a Malaysian eco-resort when she vanished into the night. Police say she left their chalet and got lost, but her loved ones insist all the evidence points to something far more sinister.

Eased restrictions could be the first big test of Victoria's revamped contact tracing
Victoria has stunned the world with how successfully it has stamped out its coronavirus outbreak. But contact tracing is arguably easier during a lockdown, so will the system cope now that the state is opening back up?

It's not a competition, but Victoria has smashed this
Just before sitting down to write this, I went back through all the columns I have written on this subject in the year of our Pandemic Lord, 2020. I've written more than 30, writes Virginia Trioli.

Canberra to unveil new aid programs in bid to reassert Australian influence in South-East Asia
The Morrison Government is about to unveil several new development initiatives to reassert Australia's influence in South-East Asia as China continues to expand its presence across the region.

 

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unbelievable
you Aussies/especially VICTORIANS
are likely sucking your premiers c.....if it has one
thinking 'all your xmases have come at once huh

ie
a few days of no virus
therefore borders finally opened/restrictions,on a WW MASSIVE SCALE lifted
despite many livelihoods destroyed

should have happened in march
bloody unbelievable
like other 'follow the shithead'leaders
you will likely vote the shithead in again huh

not
the generation of Aussies i knew and loved

 

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The Rise and Fall of the Hormel Girls, Who Sold America on SPAM

go girls
dont worry about our mods ha

 

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current human behaviour
LOVE IT
BRING IT ON
DEMISE,IS COOL
YES

Warmongering Female Mongooses Lead Their Groups Into Battle to Mate With the Enemy
New research finds females of this species engineer conflicts with rival groups to gain sexual access to males outside their group and combat inbreeding

Two banded mongoose groups face off. (Dave Seager / Banded Mongoose Research Project)
By Alex Fox
“Estrus females have been observed to lead their group deep into enemy territory, closely followed by mate-guarding males, directly inciting intergroup fights,” write the researchers in the paper.

Banded mongooses lined up for battle. (Harry Marshall / Banded Mongoose Research Project.)
This betrayal may sound particularly upsetting, but it serves an important biological function. For banded mongooses, mating with males outside their own group is vital to the genetic health of the group because each member is born into their role, meaning group members are all somewhat related. Group members virtually never defect, which sets up something of a problem when it comes to the group’s genetic diversity. As time goes on, they become more and more inbred, which can cause harmful genetic defects to build up in the group.

Through genetic analysis, the researchers even found

Warmongering Female Mongooses Lead Their Groups Into Battle to Mate With the Enemy | Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine

 

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the new norm, yes/no
sot the difference

heard
one of these fanaticalm nutters rave on NZ Radio one day last week
doubly bgot me thinkingh just how lowv some have deterioated to
glad we are not like that,yet or ever will be

Human Parts

I just flew back from the US — and what I saw helps explain the COVID surge
After spending the last few weeks in the US covering the election, it is clear to me that way too many Americans are relaxed about COVID-19 and the massive public health tsunami coming.

WA directs SA travellers to get tested and quarantine, less than 48 hours after border fall
The number of people entering Western Australia since the hard border ended is expected to jump above 3,000 today. After a cluster of cases was discovered in South Australia, anyone entering Perth from the state will now be tested and told to self-quarantine.

It's time to rethink indoor airflow to reduce the spread of COVID-19, say experts
Airflow inside buildings and other enclosed areas has received less attention than other COVID-19 prevention strategies, but now some experts are saying it is time to start talking about ventilation as a tool in our arsenal to reduce the spread of COVID-19

Dustin Johnson wins Masters with record-breaking score, Australia's Cameron Smith finishes second
US golfer Dustin Johnson wins his first Masters title, shooting a 68 in the final round to finish at 20-under-par. Australian Cameron Smith ties for second shooting 15-under.

 

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WANKERS SOUTH AUSTRALIA
USA style panic merchants
embarrassing

and
yoy will vote agin, for your premier
for 'keedping you safe' huh... duh'

 

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2 hours later,i am watching Aussie news
and


smile
they take a flight
and things/the law CHANGES while theyre in MID AIR ... FFS

 

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STATE PREMIERS SLAMMING THOSE BORDERS SHUT AGAIN
he said


SA to reintroduce coronavirus restrictions from tonight amid 'concerning' cluster


SA to reintroduce coronavirus restrictions from tonight amid 'concerning' cluster
South Australia will reintroduce significant coronavirus restrictions in response to a cluster in Adelaide's northern suburbs, with international flights cancelled and the ADF set to be mobilised.

Live: South Australians advised to stay home, avoid travel and wear a mask
Premier Steven Marshall says South Australians should work from home where possible, avoid having visitors and wear a face mask as he reintroduces some restrictions from midnight due to a growing COVID-19 cluster in Adelaide. Follow live.

These are the states and territories ordering SA travellers to isolate or quarantine
Here's a rundown of the states and territories issuing quarantine and self-isolation orders for travellers from South Australia today, as an outbreak of coronavirus cases in the state grows.

Federal Government ends Robodebt class action with settlement worth $1.2 billion
The Commonwealth agrees to a settlement worth $1.2 billion over its unlawful Robodebt recovery program, which raised automated debts against hundreds of thousands of welfare recipients.

'Turn it off and on again?': Frustration as ASX trading shut down due to 'data issues'
The Australian Securities Exchange is out of action for the day because of technical problems while Nine shares drop after CEO Hugh Marks resigns because of a relationship with a subordinate.

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bama tells Trump it's his job to 'put the country first and think beyond your own ego'
Barack Obama reminds US President Donald Trump he is a temporary occupant of the White House as he lambasts Republicans for "humouring" the outgoing leader.

Mental illness costs economy $220 billion a year, report finds
A Productivity Commission report estimates mental illness and suicide in Australia costs $220 billion a year — more than a tenth of the country's annual economic production.

Is Adelaide headed for the same situation Melbourne faced?
South Australian health authorities are working rapidly to get on top of a growing coronavirus cluster in Adelaide's northern suburbs, in an effort to prevent a second wave right before Christmas.

Fears China has cut off imports of Australian wine amid worsening trade war
There are signs that Australia's billion-dollar wine trade with China has effectively ground to a halt, as winemakers continue to grapple with disruptions.

Forged by tragedy, the parents of these three young women have something in common no-one wants
The man known as the "Claremont killer" is now behind bars. But while two families have justice, no body means no closure for Sarah Spiers' parents. In an exclusive interview Don Spiers opens up about his profound connection to the other families.