Posts Tagged 'Australia'
Australia’s Cactus Country [video]
Published February 28, 2019 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: Australia, cactus, Cactus Country, tourism, travel, video
Best Photography of The Week – 6-29-18
Published July 2, 2018 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: Australia, photography, photojournalism, picture, Politics, Syria
World’s Oldest Spider Dead at 43
Published May 1, 2018 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: Australia, Giaus Villosus, pests, RIP, trapdoor spider, wildlife
The world’s oldest known spider has died at the age of 43, outliving its nearest rival by 15 years, Australian scientists have reported. Affectionately known as “Number 16”, the female Giaus Villosus or trapdoor spider had been under observation in the wild since its birth in 1974. The arachnid is believed to have survived for so long by sticking to one protected burrow its entire life and expending the minimum of energy.
Longest Truck in The World – Australian Road Train [video]
Published October 26, 2017 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: Australia, Longest Truck, Road Train, transportation, video
Extraordinary Octopus Takes To Land To Hunt [video]
Published July 26, 2017 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: Animal, Australia, cephalopod, mollusc, nature, Octopus, video, wildlife
Bizarre Creatures Found Off Australia [video]
Published June 20, 2017 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: Australia, blob fish, coffin fish, nature, oceanography, sea pig, sea spider, sealife, sipuncula worm, video, wildlife
Atlantium – The Smallest Country in Australia [video]
Published May 2, 2017 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: Atlantium, Australia, Independence, micronation, nation, sovereign state, video
Creative People Really Do See The World Differently
Published April 25, 2017 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: Anna Antinori, Australia, consciousness, creative, medicine, openness, science, University of Melbourne, vision, visual awareness
There’s some evidence that people with a greater degree of openness also have better visual awareness. For example, when focusing on letters moving on a screen, they are more likely to notice a grey square appearing elsewhere on the display.
Now Anna Antinori at the University of Melbourne in Australia and her team are showing that people who score more highly when it comes to the openness trait “see” more possibilities. “They seem to have a more flexible gate for the visual information that breaks through into their consciousness,” Antinori says.
Nano-enhanced Textiles Clean Themselves With Light
Published March 24, 2016 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: Australia, Dr. Rajesh Ramanathan, Ian Potter NanoBioSensing Facility and NanoBiotechnology Research Lab, Melbourne, Nano-enhanced, research, RMIT University, self-cleaning, textiles
A spot of sunshine is all it could take to get your washing done, thanks to pioneering nano research into self-cleaning textiles. Researchers at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, have developed a cheap and efficient new way to grow special nanostructures—which can degrade organic matter when exposed to light—directly onto textiles.
Hairy Panic – Australia’s Tumbleweed From Hell
Published February 23, 2016 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: Australia, gardening, Hairy Panic, Tumbleweed, vegetation, Wangaratta, weed, yellow big-head
Residents of a rural Australian city are frustrated by a fast-growing tumbleweed called hairy panic that is piling up outside their houses, covering lawns and blocking doors and windows.
Coober Pedy – Australia’s Underground Town [video]
Published January 20, 2016 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: Australia, Coober Pedy, desert town, travel, underground home, video, white man in a hole
Professional Level Selfies With Australian Wildlife
Published January 5, 2016 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: Allan Dixon, Animal whisperer, Australia, daxon, Kangaroo, koala, nature, photography, pic, picture, quokka, selfie, wildlife
Meet Daxon – he produces some of the best, often humorous photos, with the cutest animals in Australia.