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Goose acts as Guide dog for blind Boxer

April 27, 2011
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Blind boxer dog Baks has got a new lease of life – after being taken under the wing of a pet goose. The four-year-old goose called Buttons leads her pal around everywhere either by hanging onto him with her neck or by honking to tell him which way to go. Owner Renata Kursa, 47,...
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Boy, 10, the youngest Australian to have sex change

April 19, 2011
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Jamie has lived like a girl for two years, now a court says he can have sex-change therapy. A COURT has allowed a 10-year-old boy to become the youngest Australian to have sex-change therapy. The boy, known as Jamie, has lived as a girl for two years, dressing in feminine clothes, using the girls’...
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Last two speakers of dying language refuse to speak to each other

April 17, 2011
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There are only two people who are familiar with the Ayapaneco language in Mexico. Manuel Segovia and Isidro Velazquezto live less than a kilometre apart in Ayapa village in southern Mexico but according to the Daily Mail, they don’t get on. Those close to the men aren’t sure what the conflict is about. They’re...
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Every language evolved from ‘single prehistoric mother tongue first spoken in Africa’

April 16, 2011
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By DAVID DERBYSHIRE Every language in the world – from English to Mandarin – evolved from a prehistoric ‘mother tongue’ first spoken in Africa tens of thousands of years ago, a new study reveals. After analysing more than 500 languages, Dr Quentin Atkinson found compelling evidence that they can be traced back to a...
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Visionary scientists grow proto-eye

April 7, 2011
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Samantha Donovan ABC  An ES cell-derived optic cup virtually inserted into a test tube (AFP: Riken CDB/M Eiraku and Y Sasai) Related Stories Audio: Mouse eye grown from stem cells Stem cell scientists share concerns, Science Online, 01 Dec 2009 Stem cell researchers see red, Science Online, 22 Oct 2009 Spare parts, Science Online,...
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Why it’s harder being a gay teenager today than in the 1970s

April 5, 2011
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By Daniela Elser, Entertainment Editor Dan Savage hopes It Gets Better will take off in Australia / AAP IT’S tougher being a gay teenager now than it was in the 1970s, rights activist and popular US advice columnist Dan Savage says. Rather than making things easier, increased awareness of gay culture means high schoolers...
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Are secret U.S. army tests to blame for TV presenters speaking utter gibberish?

April 5, 2011
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By TOM LEONARD   The video footage is some of the oddest you will ever see — a string of American and Canadian TV presenters dissolving on-air  into unintelligible gobbledygook, their distress obvious as they try but fail to stop themselves blurting out a train of disconnected words, before the producers cut to something else....
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Ban on naughty corner, Easter parades

April 4, 2011
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By Natasha Bita From: The Australian April 04, 2011 12:00am   Painting Easter Eggs could be banned under new childcare laws. Picture: Dave Highet CHILDCARE workers who send tantrum-throwing toddlers to “time out” risk hefty fines under national childcare laws to come into force next year. New regulations will expose childcare centres to penalties...
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Isabel Behncke: Evolution’s gift of play, from bonobo apes to humans

March 23, 2011
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TED Fellow Isabel Behncke Izquierdo studies the social behavior (and play behavior in particular) of wild bonobos in DR Congo. About this talk With never-before-seen video, primatologist Isabel Behncke Izquierdo (a TED Fellow) shows how bonobo ape society learns from constantly playing — solo, with friends, even as a prelude to sex. Indeed, play...
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Brene Brown: The power of vulnerability

March 23, 2011
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Why you should listen to her:   Brene Brown studies vulnerability, courage, authenticity, and shame. Brene Brown is a research professor at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work. She has spent the past ten years studying vulnerability, courage, authenticity, and shame. She spent the first five years of her decade-long study focusing...
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