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The microplastics in a product don’t have to originate in a product’s final packaging. Things like airborne particles on the production line, filaments from filters and cleaning eq…

Without resorting to abolishing the family kitchen altogether (many years of church morning teas give me the heebie jeebies about foodborne illnesses around community food prep) - …

Has there been any serious proposal for hydrogen to replace reticulated gas in domestic supply? The cost to refit existing infra would surely make it less attractive than something…

I just came across the article and came here to see whether it had been posted and I’d just missed it. Glad someone did, amazed it didn’t get same the traction. Amazed!

Yes. You might call the emergence of ownership that is contingent on the whims of a megacorporation rent-seeking.

Syllabic notation is harder to understand, someone talked about it above, syntactical boundaries are harder to parse, and the language’s functional parts - things like tenses and i…

Vague memories of there being some more up to date one, henkan-something, about the same time as the “nazeka henkan dekinai” thing

Dated put probably not outdated - Japanese also retains パソコン (pasokon, short for “personal computer), which shows its age. I recall a Japanese friend explaining it in 2003, at whic…

Downvotes, hilarious. If Mark Twain is more to your taste, go have a browse of an early 20th centry edition and see how you feel about teaching the language in that to your kids.

Encourage you to have a look at the number of different English-language translations exist of biblical texts and the kinds of debate that goes into discerning what those words mea…

Children aren’t exactly reading as literary historians. The tropes that have been lightened up in these changes are things like equating disfigurement with evilness, fatness with m…

The article is written from experience in one paediatric centre, when the pratice between different centres - and laws in different states - differ vastly. Information about people…

Will be interesting to see how this interacts with the ecology. Normally a complete shading like this would kill off everything underneath, which will mean it’ll produce loose soil…

Love that you’ve named it after an utterly charming little bird

Just. No. Leaving aside the massive pastoral leases, that is the ancestral land of the oldest continuing cultures on the planet. Mabo vs Qld was handed down in 1992 and the idea th…

> The environmental damage of open pit mining operations is nothing compared to the environmental damage and visual pollution of a large city Eh? These processes liberate vast amou…

Important advice is to be that amazing father. Breastfeeding is a huge time/energy drain. And if one of you is full-time working, the other is full-time parenting during work hours…

No need to hypothesize, a perfectly anagolous situation occurred, ten years ago, in the US. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jan/23/lethal-injecti...

The reliance on using OTP by SMS has become worse in that time, if anything. Although these days they prefer to set up a fake Linkt website and phish the OTPs since Facebook leaked…

Okay, you’re using that word in an unconventional sense. In your usage, the US Congress would be an “offshoot” of the British Crown. Movements that stand in opposition to a prior e…

The article makes this point and the headline which several have objected to does not mention rates of infection in the two populations. New infection volumes are also affected by …

Since someone’s done Hofstadter — Italo Calvino Le Città Invisibili or Invisible Cities. It’s a novel about complexity and civilisation and the difficulty and intangibility of memo…