Category: Av’a Gwumble
Giving Quickflix the quick flick!
Two weeks ago I signed up for a free trial with Quickflix home-deliver DVD. At that time I was required to provide my credit card details, just in case I didn’t return any movies etc. At 2am this morning I was billed for $26.95 for a month in advance. I contacted Quickflix and was told [...]
Science Fiction Becomes a Reality – With the New Star Wars Levitation Toy
What if you could literally train your mind to levitate a sphere? Sounds a bit far fetched? Well it’s not anymore, because this is exactly what you can do with the latest star wars toy called “the Force Trainer” which turns Science fiction into reality as it utilises your brainwaves to levitate a sphere within [...]
A year of stars and 400,000 galaxies
Australia’s Chief Scientist Professor Penny Sackett launched the 2009 International Year of Astronomy this morning at Questacon in Canberra with a live cross to the Anglo Australian Telescope at Siding Spring and to Chile. 400 years ago Galileo turned a telescope to the sky. 40 years ago Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. Galileo’s work [...]
Lecture to Reveal Secrets of Stonehenge
Professor Tim Darvill of Bournemouth University in the UK will be in Canberra next month to deliver a lecture on Stonehenge in the Manning Clark Centre at the Australian National University on Thursday, 15th May, 7.30pm start. All are welcome to attend. The lecture is part of the tercentenary celebrations of the Society of Antiquaries of [...]
New booklet exposes Canberra's shakey past
In March 1949, the Canberra region experienced a frightening earthquake, similar to the fatal 1989 Newcastle earthquake. This quake along with Canberra’s own earthquakes are described in a new booklet, Earthquakes in the Canberra Region, compiled by Dr Marion Leiba, a consultant to Geoscience Australia, with the support and input of their staff, past [...]
Japanese whaling season kicks off – sign the petition
A Japanese whaling fleet sailing toward waters off Antarctica to kill protected humpback whales has been warned that they will be stopped. In two weeks’ time members of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, will sail from their mooring in Australia into the Antarctic waters to head off the Japanese fleet and this time round they [...]
Local science student goes global
By Jessica Saunders My thirst for knowledge and passion for science recently got me selected for an international science forum in South Africa for a month in June. A year 12 Canberra Girls’ Grammar student, I was selected from 300 attendees at the National Youth Science Forum (NYSF) in January to be one of six [...]
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- Fight over TV streaming heats up as broadcasters file new lawsuit in Washington DC
- News Corp spin-off will include stock buyback fund, poison pill
