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• To Rip Or Not To Rip?

  
  The Friggin Loon — Authority: 152
  Well that friggin hurt! OK people, it’s official, removing a band-aid fast is less painful. All hail the scientists at James Cook Uni in Queensland. Yes, researcher Dr Carl O’Kane confirms it is more painful to remove a band aid slowly than quickly, though research also concludes it’s mostly likely to be all ...
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• Ripping off Band-Aid slowly causes more pain than removing it quickly

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 724
  Melbourne, December 14 (ANI): It is more painful to slowly rip off a Band-Aid than do it quickly, according to Australian researchers.Experts from James Cook University examined person’s pain against slow and fast Band-Aid removal techniques with the help of volunteers.Researcher Dr Carl O’Kane found that the ...
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• Interview with James Cook

  
  My Muay Thai — Authority: 122
  James Cook is a busy man. He plays in a band, doing classic rock gigs in San Francisco, works for a law firm, and is preparing to take the bar exam to become a full time lawyer. In the ring, Cook is even busier with over 50 professional Muay Thai fights, twenty amateur boxing fights, [...] [[ This is a content ...
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• A French connection to James Cook

  
  http://anmm.wordpress.com — Authority: 415
  A Map of the coast of Newfoundland after James Cook and Michael Lane by J N Bellin, Paris, 1784.   I’ve recently been putting some information together for the museum’s website on a series of charts in the museum’s collection that were made by James Cook and Michael Lane between 1763 and 1768. Interestingly, ...
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• Australian dives face-first into deadly jellyfish (AP)

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 178
  AP - A man who dove face-first into an extremely venomous, peanut-sized jellyfish in the waters off northeast Australia was flown to a hospital intensive care unit, officials said Friday.
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• Novel carbon-trading scheme could stop large-scale extinctions

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 644
  A new strategy for saving tropical forest species was published in the leading journal Science on the eve of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Copenhagen, Denmark, by a team of researchers, including William Laurance, senior staff scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and ...
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• New cook school opens with festive party

  
  Deadline Press & Picture Agency — Authority: 532
  Fiona Burrell and Angus James whip up a festive treat By Cara Sulieman CHEF Fiona Burrell got her own little Chrismas helper as she prepared mince pies for the launch of her new cook school last night. Three-year-old Angus James added a touch of ginger spice as he got stuck in with the icing sugar as Fiona put ...
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• Driver who killed teens loses appeal

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  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 ...
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• Two 10-year-old Vancouver girls missing

  
  CKA Canadian News — Authority: 166
  The Vancouver Police Department issued an alert Monday evening after two 10-year-old girls went missing from Captain James Cook Elementary School.
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• Liberal turmoil clouds debate on climate bills

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  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 ...
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• Rudd plays careful hand at CHOGM

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  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 ...
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• November 26 in history

  
  Homepaddock — Authority: 559
  On November 26: 43 BC The Second Triumvirate alliance of Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus (“Octavian”, later “Caesar Augustus”), Marcus Aemilius Lepidus , and Mark Antony was formed.   1731 William Cowper , English poet, was born.   1778 Captain James Cook became the first European to ...
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• James Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific – Adrienne L. Kaeppler, Robert Fleck

  
  BookOffers.com.au — Authority: 143
  James Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific chronicles Captain James Cook’s penetration into the vast spaces of the Pacific that changed Europe’s view of the world. Exploration in order to gain knowledge was a key characteristic of the Enlightenment, and it is thanks to Cook and the botanists, scholars and ...
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• Acid oceans make fish “fatally attracted” to their predators

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 724
  London, November 22 (ANI): In a new research, scientists have found that ocean acidification can cause fish to become “fatally attracted” to their predators.Danielle Dixson, from James Cook University in Queensland, who led the study, claims fish are unable to “smell danger” because of the dissolved CO2.She ...
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• Museum acquires historical treasures from Cook voyage

  
  http://anmm.wordpress.com — Authority: 415
  Exciting news! The museum announced today that it has acquired three amazing historical treasures from James Cook’s second Pacific voyage. The three artefacts – two carved wooden clubs and a rounded hand club made of whalebone – were collected from Polynesian communities during Cook’s 1772-1775 exploration ...
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• Cut global emissions to save coral reefs

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 724
  Sydney, Nov 18 (IANS) The fabulously beautiful coral reefs might be lost forever unless global emissions are immediately slashed by 25 percent, below 2000 levels.This is the grim warning by some of the world’s foremost marine and environmental scientists who briefed MPs in Canberra. “The ‘outstanding universal ...
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• APEC leaders dilute carbon targets

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is jointly hosting a climate change breakfast on the sidelines of APEC in Singapore, though the Pacific rim leaders have watered down climate change targets in their final statement. Climate change has been the big new issue on the usually trade-centred agenda of the Asia Pacific Economic ...
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• November 15 in history

  
  Homepaddock — Authority: 559
  On November 15: 1515   Thomas Wolsey wass invested as a Cardinal. 1532 Spanish conquistadors under Hernando de Soto meet Inca leader Atahualpa for the first time outside Cajamarca . 1533  Francisco Pizarro  arrived in Cuzco , the capital of the Inca Empire . 1708 William Pitt, 1st ...
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