Australia

[Monomer]

Originally Posted by Michaelangelica

Do you get the feeling it will be a stinking hot summer?

Yes!

I can't believe how warm it is, and we've had hardly any rain. I was just thinking this morning that we (in Adelaide) haven't had any thunderstorms this winter, and we're lucky if it actually rains for more that a few hours.

I think we're all in for some severe water restrictions again.

[Michaelangelica]

Saturday 18 August 2007

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* 00:00: Cane toad control Read Transcript
* 05:50: Crisis for frogs Read Transcript
* 17:46: GM techniques used to increase salt resistance in cereal crops Read Transcript
* 24:18: Kevin Fewster leaves the Powerhouse Museum Read Transcript
* 32:50: Foundational Questions in Science Institute conference Read Transcript

Saturday 11 August 2007

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* 00:00: Scramjet Read Transcript
* 04:56: Attracting students to science Read Transcript
* 11:43: Antibiotics and intensive chicken farming in New Zealand Read Transcript
* 21:34: Scepticism in science Read Transcript
* 36:50: How trees react to increased carbon dioxide Read Transcript
* 45:36: The end of slavery Read Transcript
* 50:20: The DNA Shoah Project Read Transcript

Science Show

[Michaelangelica]

[DougF]

[HomoSapiens]

Dry cold winter means record August rainfall including wild winds and floods? Oh well. Recorded over 250mm of rain here and up in sunny coast recorded over 900mm!!!!!

[Michaelangelica]

Science Show

Cane toads ar bad news

Would you like to buy one?
(Very artistically arranged & stuffed)

Saturday 18 August 2007

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Science Show

* 00:00: Cane toad control Read Transcript
* 05:50: Crisis for frogs Read Transcript
* 17:46: GM techniques used to increase salt resistance in cereal crops Read Transcript
* 24:18: Kevin Fewster leaves the Powerhouse Museum Read Transcript
* 32:50: Foundational Questions in Science Institute conference Read Transcript

Blokey Stuff

[LaurieAG]

It looks like the repeats of the Chasers War on Everything are finally over and the new season starts tonight on the ABC.

[Jay-qu]

Originally Posted by LaurieAG

It looks like the repeats of the Chasers War on Everything are finally over and the new season starts tonight on the ABC.

I only just got onto this, its brilliant

I heard a joke today that was touted as been 'Australian', it went a little something like this:

A priest turned up to do the precedings of a wedding to find that the guests in uproar and no sight of the bride or groom. The priest was then informed that the alcohol had already ran out and the best man had been caught having sex with the bride, so the wedding was off. So the priest went home, on arriving there he received a phone call from the groom 'where are ya? we are waiting for you' he asks, the priest replies 'I thought the wedding was off..' the groom laughs and says 'well it was, but we found more beer and the best man apologised so get your arse down here'

[Monomer]

Originally Posted by Jay-qu

I heard a joke today that was touted as been 'Australian', it went a little something like this:

Ahh alcohol, the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.

[Michaelangelica]

Originally Posted by Monomer

Ahh alcohol, the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.

sadly so true.
perhaps we should give MJ arun?

Watched ABC's "Talking heads" tonight about an old TV man Bill peach
Talking Heads - Home
he now runs an aerial tour company of Australia.
to me if you wanted to see Australia this would be the way to go. be flown from one interesting bit to another.
I hate driving especiallt 10-12 hours at astretch to get anywhare.

I met aretired USA professor on a flight into Austrlaia on aplane into australia one day.
I asked him where he was going . "O, Monday Sydney, Tuesday Melbourne Wednesday Airs Rock, Thursday Perth, Friday Darwin, Saturday Brisbane."
I was gob-smacked "You will see nothing but the inside of airports!" I said.
He got quite huffy and said the itinerary had been designed by a USA "Australia Specialist" Such a waste of a week! The poor guy (about 70yo) would be lucky to physically survive the trip!

Sometimes I think Yanks think of Australia a little like the Hawaiian Islands. It is an island after all

I know a friend was accused of abducting his child (he is is sadly separated from his wife) when he took her for a two hour drive out of Dublin Ireland. The court could not understand hwy he would travel so far!!!
Here (Oz) you travel two hours to buy a packet of cornflakes.

More on air tours
Bill Peach Journeys - Total Luxury Australia

Maleny Travel - Bill Peach Journeys


Other tours around Sydney
Tours in the Sydney - Wiki Australia
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I promise a link to the "Chaser's War o on Opec" opps I mean Apec when it is aired this week. It should be fun