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• Experts devise bang-up cracker formula

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  British researchers say they have devised a guaranteed method of pulling crackers, to avoid disappointment at the dinner table this Christmas. The researchers say the method for always winning the long end of the cracker, and therefore the prize inside, is in the angle that you grip it. They have released a ...
  19 hours ago

• Pair held over $4m card skimming scam

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Police in Sydney have arrested two men over an EFTPOS scam which has so far netted more than $4 million from bank accounts in Western Australia. Thousands of Western Australians have had their card details stolen at several McDonalds restaurants across Perth since October. Police allege the 31-year-old Canadian man ...
  2 days ago

• Single dose of H1N1 vaccine enough to protect infants, kids

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 723
  Washington, December 22 (ANI): Infants and children can be protected from H1N1 virus with just one dose of vaccine, a new study claims.As part of the research, Terry Nolan, from the University of Melbourne, Australia, and colleagues examined the effectiveness of two doses of a 2009 influenza A(H1N1) vaccine in 370 ...
  2 days ago

• Crew finds Centaur shipwreck

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  A search team has discovered the wreck of Australian wartime hospital ship Centaur. The WWII ship was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in 1943 and sank off the south-east Queensland coast. Of the 332 people on board the AHS Centaur only 64 survived. This morning, seven days into an official search, the crew of the ...
  4 days ago

• Weight Loss Surgery News – December 18, 2009

  
  Weight Loss Surgery Channel — Authority: 127
  In this week’s episode of WLS News we’ll look at how some obesity studies may not be totally fair and balanced. Also, we’ll see a troubling connection between the obesity-forming habits of pet owners and their pets – and the health problems both can have in common. And we’ll find out just how quickly the ...
  6 days ago

• UB researcher develops formula that can ID music industry payola

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 629
  BUFFALO, N.Y. -- A University at Buffalo researcher has invented a statistical method that can detect payola-like corruption in the music industry, a system that gives law enforcement an inexpensive statistical guide to identify potential music corruption and to better target more traditional and much more costly ...
  1 week ago

• Moving from VPAC to VLSCI

  
  The Musings of Chris Samuel — Authority: 112
  After almost six and a half years working at VPAC it’s time to move on, in January I’ll be taking up the position of Senior Systems Administrator in the University of Melbourne for the Victorian Life Sciences Computational Initiative (VLSCI) . For those who’ve not come across the VLSCI it describes itself ...
  1 week ago

• Boat crew’s shock as shark gnashes oar

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  A surf boat has been attacked by a white pointer shark while on a training run at Hawks Nest, north of Newcastle. The boat was about 400 metres off shore when the sweepers oar was ripped from his hands by the shark - thought to be a juvenile. Surf boat sweeper, Greg Ross says the crew got the shock of their lives. ...
  1 week ago

• World-first cure for gum disease a step closer

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 723
  Melbourne, Dec 11 (ANI): A vaccine is being developed in Australia to treat severe gum disease, peridontitis.Periodontitis, which causes gums to bleed and teeth to fall out, is an infection resulting from the build-up of particular bacteria that is common to most mouths. The best prevention is brushing and ...
  1 week ago

• Introducing the one-atom transistor

  
  David Kirkpatrick — Authority: 137
  Via KurzweilAI.net — This really is just amazing. A transistor made of one single atom of phosphorus. Single-atom transistor created KurzweilAI.net, Dec. 7, 2009 A working  transistor whose active region comprises only of a single phosphorus  atom in  silicon has been built by research ers from ...
  2 weeks ago

• Are we too protective?

  
  bluyonder — Authority: 111
  Are we stifling creativity and expression in schools by being over protective of children? Of course there is a duty of care to protect but at what cost to deep learning, imagination and self-expression?  Are our rigid regulations the reason why there is such a deep disconnect between school and home? Valby ...
  2 weeks ago

• Luc Longley Wins An eBay Auction That Gives Him Naming Rights For Shrimp Species

  
  Pulse2 - Technology News And Reviews — Authority: 517
  Lucien James “Luc” Longley (pictured next to Michael Jordan) attended the University of New Mexico and is a retired Australian basketball player. He played for Perth (Australia), Minnesota Timberwolves, Chicago Bulls, Phoenix Suns, and the New York Knicks. Longley won an eBay auction that gives him the naming ...
  2 weeks ago

• Driver who killed teens loses appeal

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  A motorist who killed six teenage pedestrians in a crash near Mildura in north-west Victoria in 2006 has lost his application for leave to appeal against his jail term. Thomas Graham Towle was sentenced to 10 years jail with a minimum of seven over the crash at Cardross in which six teenagers died and four others ...
  3 weeks ago

• Treatments needed to tackle obesity crisis: Experts

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 723
  Sydney, Nov 30 (ANI): Experts have urged to step up the efforts for developing drug treatments to tackle the obesity crisis.According to Joseph Proietto, a professor of medicine at the University of Melbourne, it is believed that problem of obesity can be overcome by persuading people eat less and exercise more, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Liberal turmoil clouds debate on climate bills

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  The Federal Opposition looks set to change leaders, as the emissions trading legislation that sparked the Liberal row comes back before the Senate. The Upper House failed to meet the Governments deadline of passing the scheme by last week, prompting the Governments Senate leader, Chris Evans, to accuse the Opposition ...
  3 weeks ago

• Rudd plays careful hand at CHOGM

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudds appearance at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) is an exercise in double-purpose diplomacy. First, he wants to keep a high profile among his Commonwealth colleagues, meeting all the big players of this 53-nation group: Britains Gordon Brown, Indias Manmohan Singh, South ...
  3 weeks ago

• Tiny birds have more complex songs than big birds

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 723
  Melbourne, Nov 24 (ANI): While big birds are very loud, they are not as creative and intricate as their petite feathered friends when it comes to singing, according to a new research.A bird’s song is as much the outcome of the evolutionary battle for sexual selection as its beautiful plumage, and a survey of the ...
  4 weeks ago

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