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Tiny off-grid eco-cabin in Australia has everything you really need

Less truly is more in this gem from Fresh Prince Studio.




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Junk food causes irreversible damage to young men's fertility

New research shows that a Western-style diet can permanently kill off sperm-producing cells by age 18.




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Does a bike rider's fuel cause as much CO2 emissions as a car rider's?

Not by a long shot, but the answer is still interesting.





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Australia's horrific fires were made worse by logging

Researchers are urging policy makers to recognize the critical values of intact, undisturbed native forests.




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Extended Stay America Partners With The Noerr Programs To Create The "Official Hotel of Santa Claus" - Santa Claus’ Travel Secrets

Santa Claus and Extended Stay America, “Santa’s Official Hotel,” Partner to ease holiday travel woes. In time for the holiday season, the ultimate holiday travel guru shares holiday travel tips.




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Australia Launches New International Tourism Campaign - 3 minute aquatic and coastal film

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El Departamento de Transporte de los Estados Unidos, el Ad Council y el Television Bureau of Advertising se asocian para evitar las muertes causadas por conductores ebrios durante las fiestas de fin de año - Anuncio de servicio público para TV :

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HEART RHYTHM SOCIETY RAISES AWARENESS OF THE DEVASTATING IMPACT OF AFIB-RELATED STROKE FOR MILLIONS OF AMERICANS - AFib Can Cause A Stroke - :60-PSA

Atrial Fibrillation affects your heart, but it can also affect your mind. The risk of stroke is five times higher in those with AFib. Learn more and take an online AFib risk assessment at MyAFib.org (1)





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A massive renewable energy scheme in Australia has been recommended for environmental approval

Several big firms, including Danish wind turbine manufacturer Vestas, are involved in the project.




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Chief Justice John Roberts pauses order requiring Trump administration to turn over Mueller docs to Congress

The order would have required the Trump administration to turn over to Congress secretive materials produced in connection with Robert Mueller's Russian probe.




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Spain reports uptick in daily coronavirus deaths; Australia plans reopening in 3 stages

Spain saw 229 new deaths related to Covid-19, up from 213 the day before.




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Why Australia REITs may outperform: Morgan Stanley

CNBC's Julia Wood reports on the chances of a resurgence in Australian real estate trusts.




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Stop focusing on geopolitics of coronavirus with China, says Australian CEO

Australia has "no benefits at all" from focusing on its coronavirus-related geopolitics with China, one of its major trading and business partners. It should focus instead on people's health and economic recovery, says Mark Allison, CEO and managing director of Elders Limited.




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Australian economy is starting its recovery phase, fiscal policy will influence it the most: NAB

Australia has started plans on re-opening its economy after a period of social distancing. Ivan Colhoun of the National Australian Bank suggests looking to fiscal stimulus to cushion the hit to their economy, and to keep an eye on how lower immigration may slow the economy in the long term.




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House Democrats hope to vote on coronavirus bill next week as Republicans press pause

Democrats are pushing to pass their next coronavirus relief bill, but Republicans have less urgency as they grow wary of taxpayer spending.




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How the Fed's fighting to keep Covid-19 from causing an extended financial crisis

The U.S. Federal Reserve is trying to keep the coronavirus crisis from becoming an extended financial crisis. And the Fed's measures go beyond anything the central bank did during the Great Recession of 2009.




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Wildlife habitat destruction and deforestation will cause more deadly pandemics like coronavirus, scientists warn

Habitat destruction like deforestation and agricultural development on wildland are increasingly forcing disease-carrying wild animals closer to humans, allowing new strains of infectious diseases to thrive.




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Mark Cuban, Leonardo DiCaprio, and ARod go 'all in' to fight hunger caused by coronavirus

The #AllInChallenge from Fanatics founder Michael Rubin has enlisted celebrities and sports stars including Leonardo DiCaprio, ARod and Mark Cuban to fight COVID-19 food insecurity.




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Stop blaming short sellers for causing the market drops

Blaming short sellers is misguided. European countries have banned short selling but their markets continue to fall.




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Warren Buffett says Berkshire sold all its airline stocks because of the coronavirus

Buffett said Berkshire sold its entire stake in United, American, Southwest and Delta Airlines, worth more than $4 billion on December 31.




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Apple reports flat revenue and does not offer guidance because of coronavirus uncertainty

Apple did not issue guidance for the quarter ending in June, as it usually does. The company withdrew guidance for its second-quarter in February as the Covid-19 coronavirus spread in China.




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Andrew Forrest on using business power to fight Australia's coronavirus crisis

With ten million test kits now secured by the Mindaroo Foundation and its business partners, Australia will have the "abundant capacity" to test widely for infections to "end the virus, not the economy," says Andrew Forrest, the foundation's co-founder and chairman, and former CEO of Fortescue Metals Group.




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Op-Ed: Local bars and restaurants face extinction because of coronavirus – and government needs to step up

Independent bars and restaurants found some relief in the Paycheck Protection Program, which offers low interest, short-term loans with the potential of forgiveness. That is not nearly enough, writes author and bar owner Derek Brown.




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A recent jump in the Aussie dollar may point to further gains

The Aussie dollar could see a spurt higher as recent activity shows it testing a long-term resistance level of 81.




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The behavior of the Australian dollar is a contradiction

On the one hand the Australian market is making new 10 year highs, on the other, the Australian dollar has broken a long term uptrend and is rapidly moving towards 12-month, and potentially, two-year lows.




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What to watch in Australia's market-currency contradiction

The market contradiction with the Australian dollar persists, writes Daryl Guppy.




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Australia's currency decline is collateral damage in Trump's trade war

There was a contradiction when Australia's stock market was making new 10-year highs but the currency was posting significant lows. A big question has now been answered, Daryl Guppy writes.




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Zimbabwe urged to prioritise children as record poverty causes food shortages

Researchers sound the alarm after statistics reveal almost half of impoverished children in rural areas do not have enough to eat

Poverty has reached unprecedented levels in Zimbabwe, with more than 70% of Zimbabwean children in rural areas living in poverty, a UN study has found.

The report, compiled by Unicef and the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency, shows high levels of privation in rural areas, where 76.3% of children live in abject poverty. Statistics seen by the Guardian suggest that almost half of these children do not have enough of the right food to eat.

Related: Zimbabwe on verge of 'manmade starvation', warns UN envoy

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These 3 tweaks will simplify your money. Because life is complicated enough

Streamline your money life with a few easy changes and mindset tweaks. Life is difficult enough right now.




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Coronavirus news Australia: evacuation flights for stranded citizens in India as some states ease Covid-19 restrictions – as it happened

The Australian government has arranged four additional Qantas flights to Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai in the coming fortnight. This blog has now closed

To recap, this afternoon there were 6,929 Covid-19 cases in Australia, with the death toll at 97.

There had been 16 new cases in the last 24 hours, four of which were related to the Cedar Meats cluster in Victoria.

Related: Coronavirus Australia latest: at a glance

There are just two people in South Australia considered to be active cases of Covid-19.

No further cases were recorded when the state health department released updated statistics on Saturday, with South Australia’s total tally remaining at 439.

We want people to get out and explore our fabulous regions. It is safe for regional travel in South Australia.

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Covid-19 could cause permanent shift towards home working

Tech firms will benefit, but some companies could find employees don’t want to return to the office

Covid-19 could permanently shift working patterns as companies forced to embrace remote working by the pandemic find that their employees do not want to return to the office once the closures are lifted.

The sudden increase in working from home is presenting problems as well as opportunities: on the one hand, startups such as Slack and Zoom and established giants including Google and Microsoft are offering their tools for free, in the hope that people who start using them in a crisis may carry on once normality returns.

Related: The art of Skype set-dressing: how to video-call the office when in quarantine | Imogen West-Knights

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Andrés Iniesta calls children born because of his goal against Chelsea in 2009 – video

Barcelona icon Andrés Iniesta has video-called the children born because of his famous goal against Chelsea in 2009. The late winner at Stamford Bridge led to a spike in pregnancies. 'Has your mum shown you the goal?' Iniesta asks Ignacio, born on 18 January. Of course she had, Ignacio says: 'You were a star.'

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From Australia to the US: when will football start again around the world?

As football prepares to start or resume seasons we look at 17 countries to see how close they are to a return

Clubs and the football federation hope for an August restart with a July training phase to step up for a resumption of the A-League, which was postponed indefinitely on 24 March. Five rounds of games, plus the finals, remain. All games are likely to be played in Sydney without spectators, with Wellington Phoenix to be based in NSW for a two-week quarantine before playing. The National Rugby League has the green light to restart on 28 May, which may lead to fixture clashes at cross-code venues such as Kogarah and Bankwest Stadium.

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War and the weather: what caused the huge economic slump of 1706?

With biggest plunge in output in 300 years being predicted, we explore why the last great recession happened

Queen Anne was on the throne. Work had just started on Blenheim Palace in honour of John Churchill’s victories over Louis XIV’s French armies in the war of Spanish succession. The union between England and Scotland was imminent.

1706 is how far economic historians have to look back to find a slump bigger than the one that now threatens the country as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Related: UK unemployment to double and economy to shrink by 14%, warns Bank of England

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Four causes for alarm in the US jobs figures – and one possible reason for hope

More than 20m Americans lost their jobs in April – and Friday’s report suggests there might be much more trouble ahead

Friday was a dark day for the US economy. The labor department announced more than 20 million people lost their jobs in April as the coronavirus shut down much of the economy.

Here are five key takeaways from a report that will enter the history books as the worst since the Great Depression of the 1930s.

This was the #JobsReport everyone was fearing & for good reason: 20M jobs lost. For African Americans unemployment rose to 16.7% & a similar jump for Whites to 14.2%.

This gives a historically low ratio of 1.3. Of course that means it took a pandemic to get these rates closer. pic.twitter.com/XPIG57BpJi

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Graceling turns 10 in the U.K., Australia, and N.Z. too :o)

Look what just arrived in the mail. My UK/Australia/NZ tenth anniversary edition, from Gollancz, is ready to release on September 20! I knew about the new colors and classic look, but I didn't know about the hint of map in the background, or that was it was going to be a hardcover. I'm so pleased. Happy birthday, Katsa!









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“It’s about heart! Specifically a heart that stopped beating, because of cancer”

Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger's The Enthusiast is that novel! It's even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Funky Winkerbean, 5/7/20 OK, I am ashamed to admit this, but: I genuinely do not have a handle […]




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Could a 12-year-old Australian-Chinese violinist be the next child prodigy?

Decca Classics’ youngest-ever signing, Christian Li, has been hailed a ‘superstar’ who is already up there with the greats

The classical music world is no stranger to young talent. The 19th century virtuoso Niccolò Paganini started playing aged seven, while Yehudi Menuhin caused a sensation with his performance, at the same age, of Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto.

Now, however, there’s a new kid on the block, whose backers say transforms from “normal child” to “absolute superstar” the moment the lights dim. Christian Li, a 12-year-old schoolboy violinist from Melbourne, recently became the youngest-ever artist signed by the Decca Classics record label. He will release a new recording later this month, a contemporary adaptation of a traditional Chinese folk tune.

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Imagine the UK getting rid of road rage, congestion and exhaust fumes for ever | Susanna Rustin

Britain is a latecomer to decarbonising transport but changes under lockdown and initiatives abroad could spark a revolution

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  • It was a grim irony that the best transport news in ages was buried in the first few days of the coronavirus lockdown. On 26 March, the government published a document, Decarbonising Transport, which went further in facing up to the problem of emissions from air and vehicle traffic than most campaigners had dared to hope for.

    The challenge is enormous. In 2016, transport overtook energy to become the single biggest source of domestic emissions. Motor vehicles on their own are responsible for around a fifth of the total. On aviation, the UK is the world’s third-worst polluter, behind China and the US.

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    Slower-moving hurricanes will cause more devastation as world warms

    Climate models show that as the world warms, tropical cyclones will travel more slowly, dumping more rain in one place and making high-speed winds batter buildings for longer




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    Drinking coffee appears to cause epigenetic changes to your DNA

    Coffee has been linked to changes on our DNA that affect how active certain genes are. The finding may help explain some of coffee's touted health benefits




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    Australia sees huge decrease in flu cases due to coronavirus measures

    Australia recorded just 229 flu cases this April, compared with 18,705 last April, probably due to lockdown measures to stop the spread of the coronavirus




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    Common herpes virus causes signs of Alzheimer's disease in brain cells

    A study of brain cells in a dish adds to growing evidence that Alzheimer’s disease can be caused by herpes viruses, but antiviral treatment may help stop it