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Friday, January 27, 2006

Annoy.com

Annoy.com is a website designed to get up people's noses. It therefore may be illegal under new legislation outlawing harrassment.

Arise Dr. Karl Kruszelnicki AM

Dr KarlDr. Karl Kruszelnicki was awarded a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the Australia Day honours list for his work as a science communicator. Here he is on ABC's Triple J talking about flashing tongue piercings.

Thursday, January 26, 2006

Too many Jews on WYPR

So Mark Steiner and his guests got told on his Baltimore phone-in.

Looking for 45 ants on a football pitch

NASA's Stardust@home project has invited computer users around the world to take part in an Internet-based search for dust grains originating from stars. Gareth Mitchell on Go Digital explains.

Tuesday, January 24, 2006

No hope without fear

Theodore Dalrymple is a psychiatrist who worked for many years in the NHS in Birmingham. He wrote about it in a column called Second Opinion in The Spectator magazine. He talks here to Michael Duffy about what he thinks are some pernicious effects of the welfare state on the ABC's Counterpoint.

Dildo and other erotic Canadian towns

Dildo is located on Route 80, approximately 15 km from the Trans Canada Highway in Newfoundland. It is one of the entries in Melissa Edwards' bizarre maps of Canada. Reported on The World from WGBH Boston & the BBC.

Spy rock

British secret agents were accused of running a spy network in Moscow that passed out information via a hollowed-out rock in a city park. Reported on The World from WGBH Boston & the BBC.

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