21 culture quirks that instantly reveal where you’re from
21 culture quirks that instantly reveal where you’re from
I am looking forward to the Test Cricket series against England starting tomorrow. I have zero interest in the other forms of smash n grab cricket, but I do like Test Cricket :)
Could you imagine the terror of overseas folk who were thinking of visiting #Australia if they knew that on top of all the snake and spiders etc that can kill you … we also still had ‘drop crocs’ - lol
"Some were also apparently at least partly semi-arboreal 'drop crocs,'" he says.
"They were perhaps hunting like leopards—dropping out of trees on any unsuspecting thing they fancied for dinner."
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https://phys.org/news/2025-11-australian-crocs-insights-ancient-ecosystems.html
In a local grazier's backyard in the small southeast QLD town of Murgon, scientists have been digging for decades in what looks like an unremarkable clay pit. But within the clay lies one of Australia's oldest fossil sites—a window back in time to when the continent was still connected to Antarctica and South America.
Hatte die Ehre, mich im Golem-Podcast um Kopf & Kragen zu schwadronieren. Es geht um linksradikale Stadtzeitungen in Nazi-Kaffs in Oberösterreich in den 70ern, um indische Ragas und Afro-Pop & militärische Kommunikationsempfänger, von Beschlagnahme bedroht. Und wie es war, mit 18 von der Staatspolizei observiert zu werden. Als Draufgab:
Schlägereien auf der Uni-Rampe, Punks, Redskins #OiOiOI Akustikkoppler, Mailbox-Systeme, #CryptoWars 1.0 & die Frühzeit des WWW
Erich Möchel war nie Computernerd - wieso er trotzdem plötzlich an der Spitze des technologischen Wandels landete erzählt er im Podcast.