As the spring series continues we’re joined by Scottish author and social researcher David F Porteous to talk about the thing that happened in The America this week — but also much more.
In this episode we talk about Australia’s plans to ban under-16s from social media, a selection of animals to turn into jerky, Macaulay Culkin, British religious history, and why violence sometimes isn’t wrong.
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The official website of Scottish Author David F Porteous
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Author. Podcaster. Social researcher. Karaoke superstar. New novel ‘The Wicker Man Preservation Society’ is out 21 June 21.
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[3 November 2024] Terry Rosoman, 38, from South Wales, trekked through the mist and pitch-black conditions across the Bannau Brycheiniog National Park in a 75-mile phallus-shaped route, to raise money and awareness about men’s mental health issues for Movember.
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[5 November 2024] Celebrity baby hippo Moo Deng has predicted the 2024 US presidential election winner.
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Paul the Octopus (26 January 2008 – 26 October 2010) was a common octopus who predicted the results of international association football matches. Accurate predictions in the 2010 World Cup brought him worldwide attention as an animal oracle.
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When asked who they would vote for in the US election, 41% said they would vote for Harris and 33% said they would vote for Trump
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[7 November 2024] Share surge increases Elon Musk’s fortune by $26bn in a day as Jeff Bezos, Sergey Brin and Bill Gates also benefit.
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Hare–Clark is a type of single transferable vote electoral system of proportional representation used for elections in Tasmania and the Australian Capital Territory. It was one of the first uses of the Gregory method for transfers of winner's surplus votes.
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[6 November 2024] Jill Stein won 22% of the vote in the fiercely contested city of Dearborn, Michigan, according to a projection from NBC. Kamala Harris won 28%, while Donald Trump won 47%, according to unofficial results from the city clerk, reported by the network. Metro Detroit is home to the nation's largest concentration of Arab Americans, with a large proportion of them living in Dearborn. The city — which Democrat Joe Biden won by a 3-to-1 margin in 2020 — has been roiled by political turmoil, with many upset with the Biden-Harris administration's handling of the Israel-Hamas war.
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Australians watch how the US do democracy with a mixture of confusion and surprise. Why does no one seem satisfied with how government works? Casey Briggs examines a democracy that many people have deep reservations about.
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[6 November 2024] An "incredibly rare" female baby hippopotamus has been born at Edinburgh Zoo. The tiny endangered pygmy hippo calf, named Haggis, arrived on 30 October and zookeepers said her personality was "beginning to shine" already.
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Fatso the Fat-Arsed Wombat was an unofficial mascot of the 2000 Summer Olympics created by Sydney cartoonist Paul Newell with Roy and HG from the Australian Channel Seven sports/comedy television program "The Dream with Roy and HG". Fatso is a wombat with a lazy, cheerful expression and comically pronounced rump. It usually appeared on The Dream broadcasts, sometimes as a life-size stuffed toy on Roy and HG's desk
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The Drop Bear legend tells of a large, arboreal, predatory marsupial related to the Koala that 'drops' on its prey.
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The Scottish Haggis Animal. Immerse yourself in the fascinating world of the wild haggis animals, Scotland's most mythical and elusive creature. Our comprehensive online hub is your ultimate destination for everything related to these remarkable haggis animals, connecting enthusiasts worldwide
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[16 February 2024] Taronga Zoo Sydney are celebrating World Hippo Day with a huge announcement of the birth and public debut of a four-week-old female Pygmy Hippopotamus calf born to Australasia’s only breeding pair, Kambiri and Fergus. Taronga Zoo staff involved in the preparation for this welcome birth voted on the little calf’s name. Taking out the honours, is ‘Lololi’ (pronounced Lol-ol-i), a West African name meaning ‘there is always love’.
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Macaulay Macaulay Culkin Culkin (born Macaulay Carson Culkin; August 26, 1980) is an American actor and musician. Considered one of the most successful child actors of the 1990s, Culkin has received a Golden Globe Award nomination and other accolades.
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The :DRYVRS episode that started it all! Created and written by actor/director/musician Jack Dishel, the series stars Jack as a car service passenger who can never seem to get a normal driver when he orders a car. The debut episode guest stars Macaulay Culkin as his driver.
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[6 November 2024] Weggucken hilft nicht, Angst hilft nicht, und am Ende bleibt nur hilflose Selbstberuhigung übrig. Eine Wahlnacht vor dem Fernseher.
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[7 November 2024] The foreign affairs minister, Penny Wong, has dismissed questions by the Greens in Senate estimates this morning about Australia’s ties with the US.
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[6 November 2024] President elect Donald Trump has praised Elon Musk as a “star”.
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[7 November 2024] Elon Musk, who has been a key backer of Trump’s return to the presidency, was in his default wind-up mode as he used his X platform to post a superimposed picture of himself – holding a sink – inside the seat of US power.
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Organisation chart of SpaceX showing Elon Musk as "Founder, CEO & CTO".
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Project 2025 is a historic movement, brought together by over 100 respected organizations from across the conservative movement, to take down the Deep State and return the government to the people.?Its Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, published in April 2023, is a product of more than 400 scholars and policy experts from around the country. The book offers a menu of policy suggestions to meet our country’s deepest challenges and put America back on track
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Full text of the Project 2025 proposals.
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[3 November 2024] Last week, Kennedy warned in a post on X that the “FDA’s war on public health is about to end. This includes its aggressive suppression of psychedelics, peptides, stem cells, raw milk, hyperbaric therapies, chelating compounds, ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, vitamins, clean foods, sunshine, exercise, nutraceuticals and anything else that advances human health and can’t be patented by Pharma.”
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Antidisestablishmentarianism is a political position that originated in 19th century Britain. The position opposed proposals at that time to remove the Anglican Church's status as the established church of England, Ireland, and Wales, but not in Scotland, which had and still has its own separate national church.
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[5 May 2024] The British monarch has been known as “defender of the faith” since the 16th century, referring to the Church of England after the country’s split from Catholicism, but in an increasingly diverse United Kingdom, Charles has long spoken of a desire to protect all faiths.
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For use on Saturday 6th May 2023, 11:00am at Westminster Abbey. Commissioned and Authorised by The Most Reverend & Right Honourable Justin Welby, The Archbishop of Canterbury.
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Jerky or “charqui” is lean trimmed meat cut into strips and dehydrated to prevent spoilage. Normally, this drying includes the addition of salt to prevent bacteria growth. The word "jerky" derives from the Quechua word ch'arki which means "dried, salted meat".
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Lamellar armour is a type of body armour made from small rectangular plates (scales or lamellae) of iron, steel, leather (rawhide), bone, or bronze laced into horizontal rows.
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Laminar armour (from Latin: lamina – layer) is an armour made from horizontal overlapping rows or bands of, usually small, solid armour plates called lames, as opposed to lamellar armour, which is made from individual armour scales laced together to form a solid-looking strip of armour. Prominent examples of such armour are lorica segmentata of Ancient Rome and certain versions of samurai armour.
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[7 November 2024] The Australian prime minister, Anthony Albanese, says a ban on social media will put the onus on platforms to keep out children under the age of 16.
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Thursday 7 November 2024, full transcript
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[7 November 2024] Social media users under the age of 16 are set to be barred from using social media, under legislation expected to be introduced to parliament this month. The proposed legislation won't include exemptions for young people who already have social media accounts or those with parental consent
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[8 November 2024] Digital platforms are the target again this week, with under-16s to be banned from social media, and an anti-scam plan that shares the blame with banks, telcos, and more.
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[11 September 2024] The planned Age Assurance Technology Trial 2024 is intended to evaluate “the maturity, effectiveness, and readiness” of the technologies for determining if a person is 18 years or older and 13 to 16 years of age. Technologies considered for the latter age group will include biometric age estimation, along with email verification and device-level mechanisms. For content restricted to those 18 and older, the government wants to trial double-blind tokenized attribute sharing, as well as credit cards.
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[26 April 2022] Six children jailed as adults for acting as crew on people-smuggling boats have had their convictions quashed. But Australian authorities had been told before they were jailed of doubts about the wrist X-ray technique used to prove they were over 18.
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[4 November 2024] Johnny Somali came to Korea with the obvious intention of making clickbait videos to promote his provocative channel however the table seems to have turned as he is now being used to help Korean online streamers generate views.
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[4 November 2024] YouTuber Johnny Somali faces backlash and attacks in South Korea, with locals putting a bounty on his whereabouts.
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