Places, Culture & Travel: 7 of 10
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Friday essay: peyotes in suburbia – the secret world of Sydney's psychoactive cacti growers
They tend backyards brimming with cactus varieties, consuming the produce. Prudence Gibson meets a hidden group of gardeners and ponders the allure – and – danger of psychoactive plants.
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Fish farts, snorting koalas, bonking frogs: How do animals make these crazy sounds?
Animals can make the strangest sounds. Tune into the noises made by some iconic species and find out how they make them.
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The Chronicles of a New York Locksmith -- Keys to the City
Leading up to his retirement, a New York craftsman trains his young protégé, in a short documentary by Ian Moubayed.
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Seven metals, ringed with four magical inscriptions: what other secrets does the 'Alchemical Hand Bell' hold?
Habsburg emperor Rudolf II owned a spirit-summoning alchemical hand bell. We want to decipher its cryptic Greek inscriptions.
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Maui’s historic Lahaina is burning
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Hell Pizza - Afterlife Pay
New Zealand-based Hell Pizza recently announced, "AfterLife Pay," which will allow a lucky 666 New Zealanders and another 666 Australians to order and eat pizza now, but not pay for it until after they die.
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Friday essay: we knew we were Bundjalung – but I was shocked to discover a pardoned convict slave trader among my ancestors
When Shauna Bostock began researching a book on her family, she thought it would be limited to her Aboriginal ancestry. But then a late-night phone call led her down a surprising path.
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Bad news for nervous flyers: Turbulence is getting worse as the planet warms
A recent study from researchers at the University of Reading in England provides some insight into how our skies have changed over the past few decades.
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Mapping Manhattan Project radioactive waste across the St. Louis region
In partnership with The Missouri Independent and The Associated Press, MuckRock mapped various radioactive waste sites in the St. Louis area, over the past 75 years.
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Extreme weather killed 195,000 in Europe since 1980
Extreme weather conditions in Europe have killed almost 195,000 people and caused economic losses of more than 560 billion euros since 1980, the European Environment Agency said Wednesday.
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Suuns - 2020
From the album Images Du Futur (2013). Instant obsession when I discovered this gem half an hour ago. I love the internet.
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Before the colonists came, we burned small and burned often to avoid big fires. It's time to relearn cultural burning
Before the colonists came, we managed the land with careful use of cool burns. To stop giant bushfires, we have to learn again how to care for country.
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Flesh-Eating Bacteria Washing Ashore in Florida — and Plastic Is to Blame
The virulent Vibrio bacteria thrives in plastic, which intermingles with seaweed-like Sargassum washing up on beaches
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Apple could force a 111-year-old fruit company to change its apple logo
Apple wants to trademark an image of an apple in Switzerland, and this could force a 111-year-old fruit company to change its logo.
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These bracelets survived tomb robbers and time — now they're helping us understand the 'beginnings of the globalised world'
An analysis of bracelets owned by ancient Egyptian royalty more than 4,500 years ago has found Egypt and Greece were involved in long-distance trade much earlier than realised.
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Japan Has Millions of Empty Houses. Want to Buy One for $25,000?
With a shrinking population and more than 10 million abandoned properties, the country is straining to match houses with curious buyers.
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‘Denying our humanity’: how Santa Monica decimated a thriving Black community
African Americans helped build the iconic beach town, historian Alison Rose Jefferson details as California weighs reparations
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Romantically Kissing Our Lovers Might Not Be The Fashion We Thought It Was
A new deep dive into humanity's history of romantic kissing has revealed that locking lips has a more complex story than some researchers have proposed.
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Pompeii archaeologists discover 'pizza' painting
Experts say the flatbread depicted in the 2,000 year-old fresco may be a precursor to the Italian dish.
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How Will China Answer The Hardest AI Question Of All?
There have been numerous stories about the new generation of AI chatbots lying when asked questions. This is rightly perceived as a big issue for the technology if it is to become routinely used an…