A new study says dark energy is real and is causing space-time and the universe to expand — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Astronomers have discovered a group of planets that have no fixed orbits and instead float freely through the Milky Way — via redwolf.newsvine.com
One of the most rewarding — and most deeply frustrating things about being a news junkie is that you get to see a lot more than the few soundbites that make the evening bulletins. Rewarding, because you get to hear what politicians say in context, and in full, when you watch the media conferences. Frustrating, because you also become rapidly aware that the treatment given to politicians is astonishingly uneven.
Greens leader Senator Bob Brown, Prime Minister Gillard and Opposition Leader Tony Abbott all gave media conferences this morning, and the contrast between how the media treated Senator Brown, and how it treated the two leaders, could not have been more marked.
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That was the turning point. From then, the questioning became increasingly aggressive. Now, there’s nothing wrong with aggressive questioning in itself. It’s one of the ways the media can force a politician to answer. That’s not what happened here. Several times journalists attempted to interrupt Brown in his answers, and one journalist repeatedly interrupted Brown, describing his answers as political gobbledygook
. She didn’t preface this with the phrase, With respect, Senator …
, which usually accompanies a criticism — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A dog-gone story with a happy ending — five years in the making — was announced Thursday by the county Department of Animal Services.
A Chihuahua found wandering in the street in Golden Hill on Saturday was scanned for a microchip, which resulted in a reunion with her owner — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Erudin vs Giant Evil Octopus commission — via deviantART
The story broke Sunday, when KATU reported that passengers on an Amtrak train said [Lakeysha] Beard had talked loudly and non-stop on her phone for 16 hours, from the time she boarded it at 10 pm Saturday in Oakland to her arrest at 2 pm Sunday in Salem.
When passengers complained, police said she refused to hang up and got aggressive
, the station reported. That prompted officers to stop the train and arrest her — via redwolf.newsvine.com
In the most significant women’s pay decision in nearly 40 years, the workplace tribunal has ruled that gender was a key factor in the low pay of tens of thousands of social and community workers.
But the decision by the full bench of Fair Work Australia held off in giving large pay rises, saying it wanted further submissions into how much gender had inhibited wages growth’
among the mostly female workforce of about 150,000 people, who include mental health, social and youth workers employed by non-government groups such as UnitingCare, Mission Australia and the Salvation Army — via redwolf.newsvine.com
With cybercrime now the second largest criminal activity in the world, measures such as the creation of an Internet Interpol
and better cooperation between international law enforcement agencies are needed if criminals are to be curtailed in the future, Kaspersky Labs founder and security expert, Eugene Kaspersky, has argued.
Speaking at AusCERT 2011, the Moscow-based Kaspersky said the last five years had proved to be the Golden Age
of cyber crime with the criminal activity now ranked second only to drug trafficking as the most significant criminal activity — via redwolf.newsvine.com
An extended family in Colombia struck by hereditary and very early onset Alzheimer’s is taking part in a new drugs trial that doctors hope will lead to a cure for sufferers worldwide — via redwolf.newsvine.com
She’s a vagabond toy poodle, named May by SPCA staff because earlier this month she fell out of the sky and landed in the grounds of Sechelt’s Shorncliffe Nursing Home.
How she came to be flying over the nursing home is explained by the deep talon marks in her back and sides, showing she was probably the unwilling passenger of a hungry eagle that had picked her up but eventually found her 18 pounds too much to hold on to — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Full blooded, empty-headed, time-rich, girlfriend-poor Aussie blokes, including a trio of North Melbourne footballers, are suffering a savage attack from media and the public over their membership to an exclusive mens-only Facebook group called the Brocial Network
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
An excavation contractor in Western Australia has confirmed it has handed a large quantity of historic gold coins to the owner of a building they were working on — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Doctors have declared a man cured of HIV five years after he received a bone marrow transplant and radiation therapy — but keep wearing those condoms as in the short term that cure will only work for a very small number of people — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Android users risk exposing their Google calendars, contacts and other personal details when logging on to unencrypted Wi-Fi networks, say researchers at the University of Ulm in Germany. A weakness in ClientLogin, the authentication system used to access Google services, means that 99.7 per cent of Android smartphones could be attacked — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Independent South Australia Senator Nick Xenophon has ridiculed the new Jetstar contract for pilots as treating them like Lindsay Lohan under home detention
because it prohibits them from going out without company approval on their days off.
Pilots are seething with anger over the new contract which they say treats them like serfs
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At least one Jetstar pilot has written to the board members of Qantas which owns Jetstar demanding they recognise and review the serious iniquities in the contract, which takes labor relations in Australia back to colonial master and servant arrangements, or those imposed on indigenous Australians and Torres Strait islanders in Queensland in more recent times — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Wiggles have entered the bidding race for the flamboyant hat worn by Princess Beatrice at the British royal wedding — via redwolf.newsvine.com
It accents the room beautifully, but it keeps burning me when I try to put it on — via Dorkly
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