Reheating carbs makes them act more like fibre.
Engkey, the robot English teacher from South Korea.
A six-hour comedy sketch posing as an animated airline ad.
Beslan massacre families urge the UK not to leave the ECHR.
UKIP's own goal: support for the EU at its highest in 23 years.
The man with the golden blood.
After mentioning in my last entry on the late Gough Whitlam that I once interviewed him for my student mag, I dug out the interview to remind myself how it went. Even though it’s about the fleeting events of the day, I thought I’d scan it and share it here.
Gough Whitlam shaped my life more than any other politician. His government’s investment in higher education meant my father got a pay rise and our family could afford the house I grew up in from the age of five. The introduction of equal pay for women meant that Mum’s wages were on a par with Dad’s throughout my teenage years, which was tremendously important for our family finances and for the message it sent to her two sons. I was one of the last to benefit from a free higher education as an undergraduate, during the 15-year window of opportunity his government opened in 1974. Because of Whitlam, I was able to vote in my state election in 1986 and the federal election in 1987, three years earlier than I otherwise could have, and was able to vote for senators when I later lived in the ACT. I grew up singing “Advance Australia Fair” at school, not “God Save the Queen”.
Neill Cameron of The Phoenix on why reading comics matters. Makes me wish for some way back to cheap-paper black-and-white comics with four-colour covers. Also part two, the (new) golden age of children’s comics.
Anil Dash: 15 lessons from 15 years of blogging.
Ebola swamps a city in Sierra Leone.
How flash photography changed American politics.
E.T. is ready for his closeup.
A solar cell that stores its own power.
27 October 2014
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