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The internet home of the Australian Democrats. A comprehensive political resource incorporating media releases, statements, Hansard extracts and policies as well as allowing users to apply for membership and contribute to campaigns.
A pharmacist at the Tricks of the Trade weblog has a tip on how to get down hard-to-swallow capsules: Place the capsule in your mouth, take a drink of water, and tilt your head forward instead of backward. The capsule should float, and will be at the back of your throat, read to swallow.
In FAR OUT: 101 Strange Tales From Science's Outer Edge Mark Pilkington charts some of the more curious byways, scenic detours, and inspired failures of scientists, inventors, and, yes, crackpots, over the past few hundred years.Check out the excerpt below or on Scribd.com
Scientists in Norway have unearthed the remains of a prehistoric sea reptile previously unidentified by researchers. University of Oslo researchers found new teeth, skull fragments, and vertebrae on the Svalbard
Global collection of links to Australian English slang-related sites. Slang dictionaries, glossaries & word lists featuring Australian slang samples, Aussie idioms & lingo. Aussie dictionary sites featuring Australian slang terminology, rhyming slang, Australian taboo expressions, colloquial speech, idioms & slang related phraseology. Slang Down Under: Talk Australian.
Sitting on my dining room table, I currently have half a dozen projects in various states of doneness. Some involve vivisected computer parts, others will
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K. Radinsky, and N. Ailon. Proceedings of the Fourth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, page 105--114. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (2011)