Living in the capital of Australia does bring with it some advantages. In particular, we are fortunate enough to have rather exciting exhibitions on our doorstep. In December this year an exhibition from the British Museum will be on display at the National Museum of Australia. the major exhibition is Ancient Greeks: Athletes, Warriors and…
Australia
Soil Your Undies
It’s not often you’ll hear excitement about the most disgusting y-fronts, but a group of Aussie scientists have been very excited about the dirty, rotten y-fronts they’ve been sent in recent times. The “Soil Your Undies” research project is designed to assess the soil health around Australia. Apparently cotton y-fronts are the perfect medium to…
Eurovision sparkles
The Eurovision final was on the weekend. I’ll talk about the songs and results in another post. This one is all about the sparkles. There are definite trends in the costuming and staging for Eurovision performers. One year it seemed everyone had flowing white dresses. Another year everyone used wind machines. This year it was…
Mouse plague…
Back in March I mentioned the farming community here was experiencing a mouse plague. Two months later and the plague is still with us, in fact, it’s spreading. It’s now hit my town. So far we’ve been okay and haven’t seen one, but you can’t buy rat bait or a mousetrap anywhere in town. The…
World’s most sustainable city
A study run by UK company, Uswitch, investigated a range of sustainability factors to determine the most sustainable city in the world. I’m not sure what makes Uswitch the company to do this (and therefore how credible the results are), but they used a number of factors in their consideration, including: energy transport infrastructure affordability…