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  • I’m cooking to protect our culture, our food and our stories

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    I firmly believe food is the path to reconciliation in Australia. When I cook with Indigenous ingredients, I tell the stories of the animals and plants I’m using, explaining their significance as totems and the deep connection between food, kinship and culture. At 12, I discovered a family secret: my grandmother was Aboriginal, part of the […]

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  • Making the connection between healthy eating and an active lifestyle

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    Spring is here and it’s also a natural time to go outside and be more physically active. Nutrition and physical activity connect because choosing healthy foods helps you have the energy to enjoy an active lifestyle. Being more physically active can also support increased awareness of the body and how food plays a role in […]

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  • 9 Cheap AF Beauty Must Haves If You Can’t Afford High-End Makeup

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    If you’re as active on social media as I am, you’re probably constantly bombarded with images of beauty gurus and influencers flaunting perfect makeup looks that you wish you could re-create. I mean, nothing’s stopping you from killing the makeup game too!Except for your bank account, of course… It’s no secret that a lot of popular […]

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  • 10 Indian cities top WHO list of most polluted in the world

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     The most recent air pollution data from the World Health Organization gives India a dubious lead. The world’s ten most polluted cities are Indian. The air quality database for 2016 was released by WHO on Wednesday and showed that the north Indian industrial city of Kanpur had the highest measured levels of PM2.5, or small […]

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  • The Majority of Travel Booking Sites Fail Basic Security Tests. Here’s How to Protect Yourself

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    The vast majority of travelers book their vacations online these days—and now over a third even use their smartphone to make all the arrangements. But how seriously do these booking sites take data security? As it turns out, not very—at least when it comes to password protection, according to a new report from password manager Dashlane. While companies typically […]

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  • MoviePass Brings Back Unlimited Monthly Subscription Plan

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    MoviePass has now gone back to offering its original monthly plan of unlimited movies per month, in the form of one 2D screening per day. MoviePass was decidedly a niche service for the first few years of its existence, thanks to its precipitously high price tag. That all changed in summer 2017, when MoviePass made the […]

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  • Facebook is using your Instagram photos to train its image recognition AI

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    In the race to continue building more sophisticated AI deep learning models, Facebook has a secret weapon: billions of images on Instagram. In research the company is presenting today at F8, Facebook details how it took what amounted to billions of public Instagram photos that had been annotated by users with hashtags and used that data […]

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  • Prof Stephen Hawking’s multiverse finale

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    Prof Stephen Hawking’s final research paper suggests that our Universe may be one of many similar to our own. The theory resolves a cosmic paradox of the late physicist’s own making. It also points a way forward for astronomers to find evidence of the existence of parallel universes. The study was submitted to the Journal of […]

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  • Amazon to Affordable Housing: Screw You

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    Amazon has a big middle finger today for all the affordable housing proponents out there. According to a Wednesday report in the New York Times, Amazon—Seattle’s largest employer with 45,000 staff in the city—has abruptly decided to halt a “huge” two-building, 7,000 employee expansion plan there after the City Council announced it was considering a new […]

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  • US-China trade talks center on rivalry over technology

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    Chinese and U.S. officials met face-to-face Thursday in an attempt to resolve a dispute over technology that has taken the world’s two largest economies the closest they’ve ever come to a trade war. A high-powered U.S. delegation arrived in Beijing for talks with Chinese officials aimed at defusing the tensions, though analysts say they appear […]

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