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A group of MIT students completed a mission without NASA-side budget, sub-space photography under $150. See details here .

Extracted from BBC News . People can perceive subliminal messages, particularly if the message is negative, according to a UK study. In three experiments at University College London, participants were briefly shown masked words and asked to classify them as emotional or neutral. The study, published in the journal Emotion, says being able to react to tiny cues helps us to avoid danger and may have useful marketing uses. But critics say there is no evidence this would work outside a laboratory. Professor Nilli Lavie from University College London showed 50 participants a series of words on a computer screen. Each word appeared on-screen for only a fraction of a second – much too fast for the participants to consciously read the word. The words were either positive (eg cheerful, flower, peace), negative (eg agony, despair, murder) or neutral (eg box, ear, kettle). After each word, the participants had to choose whether the word was neutral or emotional (positive or negati...

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myschool.edu.au My School enables you to search the profiles of almost 10,000 Australian schools. A note from ACARA My School provides an important opportunity for everyone to learn more about Australian schools, and for Australian schools to learn more from each other. The My School website has been developed by the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), an independent authority that is responsible, among other things, for publishing nationally comparable data on Australian schools. ACARA has worked closely with education sectors and partners across the country to develop this website. The My School website provides detailed information about almost 10,000 schools in Australia. It uses a new index of student and school characteristics, developed specifically for the purpose of identifying schools serving similar student populations. This enables schools’ results on national tests to...

1. Net affected plants with shade cloth or white bird netting at night time. Quick, cheap, and darn effective! This is absolutely the best way to protect young plants and seedlings from possum attack. Why not supplement this with a hanging cat scare face or two? Available from nurseries, these scare faces look like cats and have reflective eyes, pretty scary if you are a possum! 2. Sprinkling blood and bone fertiliser around the base of ornamental plants and fruit trees can act as a significant possum deterrent. They hate the smell, and will be less inclined to munch on treated plants! 3. A home made garlic spray of 2 tablespoons of crushed garlic in one litre of hot water, left to stand over night, strained and sprayed onto foliage, fruits and tasty growing tips is an old favourite of mine, and it seems to work. Subsequently, try chillies or Indonesian fish sauce. Just remember to wash your produce before eating! 4. A spray made from Quassia chips (chips of bark from...

Areca Palm (Chrysalidocarpus lutescens) – Semi-sun, Lady Palm (Rhapis excelsa) – Semi-sun, Bamboo palm (Chamaedorea seifrizii) – Semi-sun, Rubber Plant (Ficus robusta) – Semi-sun to Semi-Shade Dracaena “Janet Craig” (Dracaena deremensis “Janet Craig”) – Semi-shade Philodendron (Philodendron sp.) – semi-shade Dwarf Date Palm (Phoenix roebelenii) – Semi-sun Ficus Alii (Ficus macleilandii “Alii”) – Full Sun & semi-sun Boston Fern (Nephrolepis exaltata “Bostoniensis) – Semi-sun Peace Lily (Spathiphyllum “Mauna Loa”) – semi-shade Source from Generation Green .