Okay so the costumes and hair are a bit dodgy but don't tell me your foot wasn't tappin and your hands a clappin listening to this song!

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Big clap for The Age for producing a totally uninformative article, and doing nothing but stirring up panic All they basically said was that a bunch of people taking Nurofen compared to a control group allegedly demonstrated increase risk of heart attack ( Read more... )

Worst flooding in Queensland (Australia) since the 70's apparently. Watch the video here of the freak 8 metre wall of water swell and wash away cars in the space of minutes:

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22 Statistics that prove America's middle class is being wiped out.

Associated article here

This isn't the greatest photo, but you can see the car in front of the taxi has rolled onto it's side. As far as I can tell, the car has gone through the roundabout near my work, the taxi driver has come through without giving way and clipped the back of the other vehicle causing it to roll onto it's side.


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Some of these questions were hard to answer, for example, questions on War and intervention. I generally view myself as a non interventionalist, but could I really stand by and watch a population oppressed and slaughtered if I *knew* intervention would fix it ( Read more... )

Video - Clinton warns yale grads aboutan unequal and unstable world .

Sadly what we need to do and what actually happens are two different things entirely.

Try this:

a) Take a deep breath, hold it then;
b) Breath in just a little bit extra through your nose (you will fit in extra air).
c) Stay holding your breath for as long as you can.

Breathing in that extra bit through your nose fills your lungs to capacity, pushing out any extra air pockets and ensuring your diaphragm has no extra space to

Fascinating article. For all of the diatribe of the Republicans, many of their political leaders were not as Republican as you might think .

So I read this interesting opinion piece on the world's declining birth rates . This moralising piece of fluff grated on my nerves. There are many different cultural,social, and more importantly, economic reasons for the world's decline in birth rates ( Read more... )