Australian Exceptionalism | Pollytics “Australian Exceptionalism”…. let that phrase roll off your tongue. Now stop laughing for a moment if you can! There’s something about that phrase that just doesn’t sit right with us. We’re not only unaccustomed to thinking about ourselves that way, but for many it’s a concept that is one part distasteful to three parts utterly ridiculous – try mentioning it in polite company sometime. Bring a helmet. We’ll often laugh at the cognitive dissonance displayed by our American cousins when they start banging on about American Exceptionalism – waxing lyrical about the assumed ascendancy of their national exploits while they’re forced to take out a second mortgage to pay for a run of the mill medical procedure. But in truth, we both share that common ignorance – we share a common state of denial about the hard realities of our own accomplishments compared to those of the rest of the world. So let us take a hard look at our economic reality. And for direct comparison: Getting the picture?
Kevin Richardson (zoologist) Kevin Richardson next to a jaguar Kevin Richardson (born October 8, 1974) is a South African zookeeper who has worked extensively with native animals of Africa. He has been accepted into several clans of spotted hyenas and prides of lions. [1] Kevin Richardson was born in the Nightingale Clinic in October 3 1971 Johannesburg, South Africa. Richardson went to college and studied zoology, but quit following two years of repetitive lessons on marine biology instead of mammals. Kevin Richardson with hyena Richardson and his team work with animals for the commercial filming industry and make documentaries to generate income to fund the facility. He develops a bond with the lions and gets to know them, and has gained recognition by living with lions. Richardson worked in a 1600-acre Lion Park in Broederstroom, a town 35 miles north of his hometown, Johannesburg, in South Africa. Kevin Richardson with lions Richardson has worked with big cats and relies on intuition rather than static rules.
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Coral sea paradise faces ruin from mining Tropical delight ... children enjoy the beauty of the reef in front of their village on Raja Ampat. ONE of Australia's richest men, Clive Palmer, is buying nickel laterite ore for his Yabulu refinery from an Indonesian company that is defying a ban and mining in Raja Ampat, the world's most ecologically diverse marine environment. An investigation by the Herald has discovered that as well as threatening the environment that is home to 75 per cent of the world's coral species, the supplier undercompensates landowners, has allegedly paid bribes for its licences and created deep rifts in the traditional communities of Raja Ampat. Conservationists and activists have fought hard to have Raja Ampat, in West Papua province, protected but the mine on the island of Manuran where Queensland Nickel gets its nickel, PT Anugerah Surya Pratama, remains open. And its sister company continues to work at another disputed concession on the island of Kawe, despite a court order to desist. Advertisement
When computers were sexy: Hilarious vintage ads from the early days of the PC By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 05:19 GMT, 1 April 2012 | Updated: 06:31 GMT, 1 April 2012 Companies such as Apple have made their name by marketing their products not just as technological tools but as glamorous and fun toys. But this marketing technique is nothing new, as these vintage adverts from the early days of PCs show. They portray computers as fun, easy to use - and even sexy, with the help of a few eager-looking models. Other quirks of the now-outdated ads include the attempt to initiate consumers in the strange world of 'electronic mail', and an appearance from the young Bill Gates. 'Maybe even sexy': This glamorous 1971 advert is trying to sell a modem, of all things Girl power: Technico Inc also used sex appeal to sell their 'microcomputer' in 1978 Sex sells: Film character Elvira was recruited to depict a desktop as a chainsaw tearing apart the old ways of doing things in this bizarre 1991 advert What indeed? Handy? Giant?
SleepTiming: Match your sleep cycle and wake up refreshed! Air Too Dangerous to Breathe: How Gas Drilling Can Turn Rural Communities Into Industrial Wastelands [With Photos] Photo Credit: Nina Berman/NOOR December 13, 2011 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. View a slideshow from award-winning photographer Nina Berman below. The exploding faucet may have launched the movement against fracking, but it's the unsexy compressor station that is pushing it to maturity. Last week, more than a hundred activists from Pennsylvania and New York, including actor Mark Ruffalo, brought thousands of gallons of drinking water to 11 families in Dimock, Pa., who had been left dry after Cabot Oil and Gas stopped their water deliveries. The mess Cabot created in 2009 from shale gas drilling had now been cleaned, according to the state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), which meant no more water for the Dimock 11, the holdout families in a long-running feud over water contamination and cleanup. These stations are essential to push gas through the pipelines.
100 Websites You Should Know and Use In the spring of 2007, Julius Wiedemann, editor in charge at Taschen GmbH, gave a legendary TED University talk: an ultra-fast-moving ride through the “100 websites you should know and use.” Six years later, it remains one of the most viewed TED blog posts ever. Time for an update? We think so. Below, the 2013 edition of the 100 websites to put on your radar and in your browser. To see the original list, click here. And now, the original list from 2007, created by Julius Wiedemann, editor in charge at Taschen GmbH.
25 free open source projects IT pros will love | Applications Although it's popular these days to pooh-pooh the advertising-supported, for-profit SourceForge in favor of GitHub, the SourceForge folks want to remind you that the forge still hosts more than 300,000 projects and serves up a good 4 million downloads a day. We asked SourceForge's new community manager and longtime open source coder, Rich Bowen, to sniff out a few of the cool, lesser-known projects he thinks IT folks will love. What follows are his picks, along with a few of our own. Also: 26 helpful open source network management tools Fave raves: 22 IT pros name their favorite products Deal Reached in Durban But Scientists Say it Won't Avert Catastrophic Climate Change December 11, 2011 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. Scientists and environmental groups warned that urgent action was still needed to rescue the world from climate change, despite the deal sealed on Sunday morning in Durban after two weeks of talks. Andy Atkins, executive director of Friends of the Earth, said: "This empty shell of a plan leaves the planet hurtling towards catastrophic climate change. Under the Durban agreement, governments will now spend four years negotiating how far and how fast each country should cut carbon emissions. Atkins said the science was clear – the current emissions targets set by developed and developing countries were inadequate, and if they were not strengthened, the poorest would be hurt most. Other environmental groups and scientists agreed. "What remains to be done is to take more ambitious actions to reduce emissions, and until this is done we are still headed to over 3C warming.