Scribble a few words on a piece of paper, doodle on a bar coaster or
simply scratch your ear while you’re talking, and within seconds Alice
will be telling you everything you ever did – or more likely, did not –
want to know about yourself. And with an accuracy bordering the scary.
He is a pained man on a mission. Dr Thomas J Goreau is sickened with
seeing widespread and massive destruction of coral reefs that were once
resplendent underwater rainforests, a joy to fishes and fishermen alike.
The
shower might use about 200kwh (that’s 3kW, 10 minutes a day),
whereas your electron-gobbling PC can use up to 350kwh (that’s
150w for 5-6 hours a day). Even if you leave it switched off, it can be
using as much as 15w on standby, making a staggering 130kWh per year.
When
people can fly into space just as easily they fly around the world,
this planet will no longer be the limits of our exploration. Launching
its new mothership, one company has almost reached this point.
Since the dawn of mankind, plants and animals have provided solutions to
many of our illnesses by learning more about how they
live and stay alive. It has now
become increasingly difficult for research in natural
medicinal sources due to the rapid loss and even extinction of animals and plants.
Whether you are at secondary or tertiary level, exam time
is looming. While many of us see this as time for coffee runs,
endless Tim Tams and late nights, it need not be a time of
stress. Find out Why.
You have to pass Year 12 with very high marks as getting
into a university course is a cut-throat business with only
the best applicants being accepted. The University of Sydney, for example, will only take a Year
12 graduate with a University Admission Index of 98.2. Medical
science courses only need a 95.45 mark! Full Story.
Phrases like "Carbon Offsetting", "Carbon Neutral" and "Carbon
Footprint" are being bandied around the media like an old pair of socks
lateley. You'll often hear your favourite movie star, or band, talking
of their contributions to making the world a little greener. But why? Find out Here.
There
are some areas in business and the corporate world that are rapidly
adapting their practices to ensure a sustainable future. We recently
visited a business, a wine-making operation, in Victoria's alpine
region that employs various recycling initiatives and uses
100% green electricity to reduce it's carbon footprint. Full Story.
The phrase "dining with the stars" will take on a whole new meaning if an American hotel mogul
succeeds where NASA has failed. The Las Vegas hotel tycoon is spending
half a billion dollars to test and potentially build a hotel that
floats in space, and which would also need a brand new space ship to
ferry customers more than 100km above the Earth's oceans.
Any talk about the transition from high school to uni tends to polarise
a conversation. Some love it straight away, others struggle to
acclimatise like a polar bear in the face of global warming. Either way
most people get there, but making a good start could be as simple as
having the right outlook. Full Story.
Found
in the Libra constellation which is about 20.5 light years away is a
star called Gliese 581. Orbiting this star is a planet that could be
hospitable to human life, and it could also be the closest planet to
Earth that harbours alien life forms. Could this be a second Earth, a
place for humans to start all over again? Find outby reading the full story.
A recent media release by
Education Department of Victoria has revealed
that a School Start Bonus was introduced by the Victorian Government in
2006 in order to assist parents/guardians of Prep and Year 7 students
in meeting the start-up costs of sending their child to school. Full Story.
According to a media
release by the Education Department of Victoria,
Education Services Minister Jacinta Allan recently announced that new
special hardship measures are in place to "help families transport deaf
and hearing impaired students to and from government schools with deaf
facilities". Full
Story.
Richard
Moore travels to New Zealand's North Island to check out a wind farm,
where massive propellors with 35 metre blades spin around, generating
enough electricity to supply power to thousands of homes in the region.
Full Story.
