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NT Paediatricians: Call for national action to prevent 'torture' or death of incarcerated First Nations children Paediatricians in the Northern Territory see the dire effects of entrenched structural racism on Aboriginal children on a daily basis.

NT Paediatricians: Call for national action to prevent 'torture' or death of incarcerated First Nations children

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Cars sold in Australia still use more petrol and emit more toxic fumes than advertised, new real-world testing shows AAA says carmakers overstating improvements in fuel use and environmental performance despite repeated investigations

Cars sold in Australia still use more petrol and emit more toxic fumes than advertised, new real-world testing shows

AAA says carmakers overstating improvements in fuel use and environmental performance despite repeated investigations

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Trump Administration Live Updates: R.F.K. Jr. Cancels mRNA Vaccine Contracts

“This is a bad day for science,” said Scott Hensley, an immunologist at the University of Pennsylvania who has been working to develop an mRNA vaccine against flu…With this move, the department is “undermining our ability to rapidly counter future biological threats,” said Rick Bright, a flu expert”

“in 2023, UNESCO published a report that warned of an over-reliance on EdTech, pointing to the specific dangers of widening inequalities and marginalised learners, not because they won’t have the tech, but because they will rely on it as a cheap alternative to in-person teaching”

The Quiet Education Divide No One Is Talking About What Silicon Valley won’t let their kids use (and why your child might be stuck with it)

The Quiet Education Divide No One Is Talking About

What Silicon Valley won’t let their kids use (and why your child might be stuck with it)

drelizafilby.substack.com/p/the-quiet-...

GodDAMMIT

He's straight up killing people. A *lot* of people.

I got up close with a Portuguese man-o-war and my god these animals are shockingly beautiful.

Travelling couple witness 'heartbreaking' incident with speeding 4WD on country road There's a sad reason the rare birds are being drawn to roadsides where they face extreme danger. Find out more.

Travelling couple witness 'heartbreaking' incident with speeding 4WD on country road

Roughly 1,500 regent parrots are thought to remain. Following the actions of a speeding driver, that number is now less.

au.news.yahoo.com/travelling-c...

Why can't we believe that "kind" and "gentle" men can be abusers and murderers? Eulogising violent white men must stop.

Why can't we believe that "kind" and "gentle" men can be abusers and murderers?

Eulogising violent white men must stop.

www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/mare...

NEW: Extraordinary footage has emerged of the huge tsunami that hit Russia’s remote Kamchatka peninsula after the 8.8 magnitude earthquake on July 30th.

(🎥 Doni Nikz)

National parks are key conservation areas for wildlife and natural resources The National Park Service is not just focused on helping people enjoy the outdoors, but also on conserving wild places.

The reintroduction of gray wolves to Yellowstone triggered a "trophic cascade," leading to increased vegetation, beaver populations, and the return of songbirds, according to scholars of national parks. buff.ly/W85sSqJ By Sarah Diaz and Linda Lane, Coastal Carolina University

Why a NASA satellite that scientists and farmers rely on may be destroyed on purpose The Trump administration has asked NASA staffers to draw up plans to end at least two satellite missions that measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to current and former NASA employees.

The anti-science Trumpers may be planning to destroy two working satellites that provide vital measurements about carbon dioxide & climate (and data that forecasts crop yield, drought conditions, & more). They cost $750 million to make but only $15 million/yr to operate.
www.npr.org/2025/08/04/n...

This iconic Fabian Todorovic cartoon is still one of the best I’ve seen at illustrating the remarkable amount of space we surrender to cars, leaving little space left for everyone and everything else. The text added later makes the bonus point that many drivers still manage to complain about it.

Ten Victorian towns to lose piped gas as operator says network is too expensive Solstice Energy says it will switch off its gas pipelines across 10 regional Victorian towns by the end of next year.

Here comes the death spiral doo-doo doo dooooo.
www.theage.com.au/politics/vic...

Adani! I don’t want to say I told you so but … Actually yes I do. I told you so! | First Dog on the Moon The Adani coal mine has been operating for three years and has paid zero corporate tax. I for one am shocked

Adani! Coal mines! Everyone loves... no wait they don't. In fact... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Journey times up, deaths down: Welsh 20mph speed limit still divisive two years on Protests continue against default lower limit in urban areas that supporters say is working ‘exactly as intended’

On the one hand, far fewer people are being killed. On the other, some people get to work two minutes later. So it's impossible to say whether it's good or not.

Subsidising e-bikes instead of cars could really kick the electric vehicle transition into high gear Electric car discounts are too meagre to help the low-paid and car-dependent.

Subsidising e-bikes instead of cars could really kick the electric vehicle transition into high gear

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Epstein Is Only the Tip of the Iceberg: The Trump Protection Machine and the Epidemic of Violence Against Women On July 2, the jury delivered a guilty verdict on some of the charges against music mogul Sean Combs for his decades of horrific sexual abuse of women with the help of his extensive staff and deep poc...

A longer version of this essay is at:

The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein | Rebecca Solnit Treating the scandal as an aberration misunderstands the global epidemic of violence against women

"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."

Global groundwater extraction also measurably affects sea level rise (where it finishes up). Used to be that increased terrestrial storage due to dam building was slightly counteracting global heating sea level rise. No longer. Groundwater extraction is now winning: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Paper is here (open access): www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Why are bike lanes being fought so hard right now? Powerful people are trying to take away an option for people to fight the climate crisis. To keep us in cars to concentrate wealth through the expense of car ownership. This more than bike lanes this is democracy we are fighting for.

Scalloped hammerhead sharks (Sphyrna lewini) IUCN Critically Endangered © Masayuki Agawa_Ocean Image Bank

New #GlobalSharkTrends study published in @science.org reveals #overfishing has more than halved shark & ray populations over the past 50-years causing widespread erosion of ecological function and exceptionally high extinction risk
👉Full article bit.ly/GlobalSharkTrends
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The huge Harbour Bridge march shows people have had a gutful of seeing starving children in Gaza. Politicians need to catch up | Anne Davies There was a palpable sense of anger towards Chris Minns and, to a lesser extent, Anthony Albanese

A sea of "women in hijabs, men in Palestinian scarves, families with children, older couples, unionists and tens of thousands of young people from all parts of Sydney" #MarchForHumanity to send an unmistakenable message to politicians who've cauterised their conscience

#SanctionIsrael #ActNOW

Land use policy is sabotaging public health If it’s hard to walk in a neighborhood, don’t be surprised when its residents struggle to stay healthy.

Land use policy is sabotaging public health

“The way we build cities makes physical activity a luxury good”

www.urbanismspeakeasy.com/p/land-use-p...

Analysis: The US government has declared war on the very idea of climate change | CNN Politics Americans are used to whiplash in their climate policy. The US has been in and out and in and out again of the key Paris climate agreement over the past four presidencies.

"The US government has declared war on the very idea of climate change" by Zachary Wolf for @cnn.com: www.cnn.com/2025/08/01/p...

Neoliberalism's core assumption is that societies don't need safety nets, because people can take care of themselves. But that just incentivizes people to push the work of care downstream onto women. And to prevent them from having the kind of power to push it back.

Every Scientific Empire Comes to an End America’s run as the premier techno-superpower may be over.

"If the U.S. is no longer the world’s technoscientific superpower, it will almost certainly suffer for the change. America’s technology sector might lose its creativity. But science itself, in the global sense, will be fine. The deep human curiosities that drive it do not belong to any nation-state"

Cleveland Museum photo showing an ancient Egyptian paint box carved from boxwood with five oval wells containing original paint pigments. From top to bottom the preserved cake pigments are red (red ochre), blue (Egyptian blue), green (a mixture of Egyptian blue, yellow ochre, and orpiment) and two of black (carbon black, from charcoal). Dimensions 2.2 cm x 21 cm x 3.6 cm. On the front of the box there’s an inscription inlaid in Egyptian blue with the name Amenemope who was Vizier during the reign of Amenhotep II, Dynasty 18. It translates as ‘The overseer of the city and vizier Amenemope. Master of secrets of the west bank [of Thebes]’. A red inscription on the back reads ‘Amen-Ra, Lord of the Thrones of the Two Lands’. Dated c. 1427-1401 BC.

Wow, this 3,400 year-old ancient Egyptian paint box still contains original pigments!

Looks similar to a modern-day set!

An inscription tells us it belonged to Amenemope, Vizier during the reign of Amenhotep II.

📷 Cleveland Museum of Art www.clevelandart.org/art/1914.680

#Archaeology

Starving child in Gaza was reportedly killed minutes after receiving aid, former US military contractor says Anthony Aguilar, who worked at the controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), says the child kissed his hand and thanked him before he was reportedly shot dead by Israeli forces

Anthony Aguilar, who worked at the controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), says the child kissed his hand and thanked him before he was reportedly shot dead by Israeli forces

www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-st...