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  • Whimsy: Musical Pets edition

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    Sometimes we all need to see teh awesome. Please share anything that has recently surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you! Meet Tucker the piano-playing singing Schnoodle.

  • Tool of the Day

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    Ratcheting Pruning Shears! Since it’s December, let’s use my new pruners as the kick-off for our first 2012 in retrospective thread – what’s the best tool/gadget/gizmo/hack you’ve found this year?

  • SF Question of the Day: Dune and Lawrence of Arabia

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    Would Frank Herbert’s Dune have been such a wide success if its publication in 1965 had not been preceded by David Lean’s masterful cinematography of windswept dunes in 1962’s Lawrence of Arabia?

    How, more generally, does our experience of pictorial representations of landscapes and people (both still and moving pictures) influence our perceptions of other works of art, of the world and people around us, and even of our own self-awareness?

  • Today in WTF is the Gillard govt thinking?

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    Handing the current Federal environmental oversight and protection powers to the State Premiers? If it weren’t for the protection of the Federal government, we would have lost places like the Great Barrier Reef, the Franklin River, the Daintree Rainforest and Fraser Island a long time ago.

  • The 55th Down Under Feminists Carnival is up!

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    In blue on a white background, the DUFC logo: in a square with rounded corners, there is the female/feminine symbol; with the Southern Cross inside, above which it says 'Down Under' and below 'Feminists Carnival'.

    All the details on the latest edition, and how to submit to the next one!

  • Nugget of Awesome: welcome to evo psych redux

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    [Evolutionary psychology hardly covers] the evolution of morality, the evolution of politics, of cuture, of the artistic sense, etc … There is instead an obsessive focus on gender roles.

  • Media Circus: Silly Season edition

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    What has piqued your sociopolitical media interests lately? Please share your bouquets and brickbats.

  • Otterday! And Open Thread.

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    Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to get off your chest? Books? News stories? What have you created lately? Commiserations, felicitations, temptations, contemplations, speculations?

  • Feminism Friday: this week on the Feminism 101 Blog

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    A man with dark ginger hair and whiskers is holding a sign which says BY DEFINITION YOU CAN'T ASK FOR RAPE

    It’s that time of the month again with Call for Feminism 101 Links III, and a guest post – Feminism Friday: What can I do, right now today, to help stop sexual violence

  • Matt Honan on the End of the Age of the Password

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    Times have changed. We’ve entrusted everything we have to a fundamentally broken system. The first step is to acknowledge that fact. The second is to fix it.