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War is over. Aircraft Carrier USS Randolph visits downtown Baltimore for VJ Day celebration.

 

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A Marscape for any room and budget!
Each Marscape comes in 6 styles, 3 sizes, several border colors and materials, and 3 different frame options to match your aesthetic tastes.

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Soon to be released LEGO set allowing you to construct an Adidas sneaker out of bricks. The packaging is unusual for LEGO as it looks like a shoebox!

 

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For all Freddie Mercury fans! (@BillM I'm looking at you)

 

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Strange 'blinking' star near heart of Milky Way catches scientists' eyes
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Astronomers discover largest known spinning structures in the universe
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magine your documents and records suddenly lost

Academic rigour, journalistic flair

Imagine if your family’s documents and records, placed carefully away for generations, were suddenly lost. This is the prospect facing the whole country if the National Archives of Australia is not given more money to preserve its artefacts. And as eminent historian Judith Brett writes, it is not just professional historians who use the archives: so do family historians, for example, as the archives hold the personal records of many thousands of Australians.

So why then, despite all the calls for the situation to be urgently addressed, has the government not given the archives the money it needs to preserve its collections? It’s only $67 million over seven years, a paltry amount in the context of federal budgets.

While some commentators have seen this as another shot in the culture wars, Brett doesn’t agree. She sees it rather as an oversight, a case of “careless philistinism in a budget designed for a forthcoming election”.

With their eyes fixed on election cycles, it can be hard for politicians to think about the future. But Australians of the future will want, and need, the archives intact, to understand where they have come from and figure out where they are going. Brett, and many others, hope the government rectifies the situation soon.

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In neglecting the National Archives, the Morrison government turns its back on the future
Judith Brett, La Trobe University

The archives' neglect may not be, as some as argued, another shot in the culture wars, but it is a sign of the government's truncated temporal imagination.



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perhaps like life iotself,currently at least

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The end of JobKeeper wasn’t a blip. It might have cost nearly 100,000 jobs
Peter Martin, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University

Unless we're careful the damage will be long-lasting — especially for younger Australians.

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Peatlands worldwide are drying out, threatening to release 860 million tonnes of carbon dioxide every year
Yuanyuan Huang, CSIRO; Yingping Wang, CSIRO

Peatlands worldwide are running short of water, and the amount of greenhouse gases this could set loose would be devastating for our efforts to curb climate change.

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Many of us want to take our dogs on public transport, but others shudder at the thought — what’s the solution?
Jennifer Kent, University of Sydney; Corinne Mulley, University of Sydney

Many Australians are dog owners but feelings run high over the issue of allowing dogs on public transport. Despite polarised opinions, experience overseas shows how concerns can be managed.

Cassini Imaging Team, Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
Why is everyone so obsessed with going to Mars? Here are some other worlds ripe for exploration
Gail Iles, RMIT University

Mars has earned a lot of headlines lately, but dozens of missions – both current and planned – are fanning out across the Solar system to learn about other weird worlds too.

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No, it’s not just a lack of control that makes Australians overweight. Here’s what’s driving our unhealthy food habits
Gary Sacks, Deakin University; Sally Schultz, Deakin University

Unhealthy foods are readily available and heavily marketed to us, especially at supermarkets.

Arts + Culture

• How the stunning abstract art of Hilma af Klint opens our eyes to new ways of seeing
  Joanna Mendelssohn, The University of Melbourne
  
  The once secret paintings of Hilma af Klint are a revelation both for their beauty and for highlighting the impact of spiritualism on how artists see the world.
  
  
• Sinuous, sinewy and transcendent: SandSong proves Bangarra is one of Australia’s best dance companies
  Kate Maguire-Rosier, University of Sydney
  
  Embedding traditional dance stories and modern dance within Bangarra's signature style, SandSong is a rich, evocative and powerful production.

Health + Medicine

 

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What did wild watermelons taste like?
The answer: Not that great. Before it became the summertime treat it is today, the watermelon was one foul, functional fruit. In fact, the wild watermelons of ancient times would hardly be recognizable to even the most seasoned Citrullus connoisseurs of today. Firm, seedy, and pale green on the inside, they were characterized by their bland or bitter taste.
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scintists Discover a New Plant Organ
The structure, called a cantil, holds up the flower-bearing arm of the thale cress, a long-studied species

 

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Huge sinkhole bursts open near underwater 'blowhole' in South Australian coast

Huge sinkhole bursts open near underwater 'blowhole' in South Australian coast
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Earth's fifth ocean just confirmed
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Climate 'tipping points' could push us past the point-of-no-return after less than 2 degrees of warming
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Hoover Dam reservoir reaches record-low water levels
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Dramatic images capture rapid slide of Antarctic glacier
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Earth's core is growing 'lopsided' and scientists don't know why
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Hunks of oceanic crust are wedged inside Earth's mantle
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