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Antarctica hits record-high 18.3C temperature, UN confirms

The southern polar region is one of the fastest-warming places on the planet


The temperature of 18.3C in the southern polar region, one of the fastest-warming places on the planet, was announced by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO).
The reading was taken on February 6, 2020 at Argentina’s Esperanza station on the Antarctic Peninsula.

The previous record, of 17.5C, was recorded in the same spot on on 24 March 2015.



The Antarctic is 8.7 million square miles (14m sq km) about twice the size of Australia.


Average annual temperature ranges span −10C on the Antarctic coast to −60C at the highest parts of the interior, WMO reports.

Its vast ice sheet is up to three miles (4.8km) thick and contains 90 per cent of the world’s fresh water, enough to raise sea level by around 197 feet (60m) were it all to melt.
 

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I've been looking into language and language evolution recently, I found it quite interesting that most 'national' languages we have are mainly just one dominant dialect getting used throughout the country for one reason or another, usually to do with popular literature.

For example:

Italian is a Florentine dialect of the Tuscan language, which became the national tongue due to the Rennaissance coming out of Florence and more specifically the popularity of Dante's Divine Comedy which was published in Tuscan rather than Latin.

German is a Saxon dialect of High German which became the national tongue via Martin Luther's translation of the Bible.

French as we know it today is also called 'Francien' as it was Francien that was chosen over Norman and Picard to become the standard French language
 
In 2003, the London Underground decided to try playing classical music to stop anti-social behaviour and rates of robberies, assaults and vandalism all dropped.

Another place in the UK swapped harsh yellow streetlights out for soft blue ones and it had the same effect on criminal activity.
 
Dav said:
In 2003, the London Underground decided to try playing classical music to stop anti-social behaviour and rates of robberies, assaults and vandalism all dropped.

Another place in the UK swapped harsh yellow streetlights out for soft blue ones and it had the same effect on criminal activity.
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Isn't the whole blue light thing to deter junkies by making it harder to see your veins?
 

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kickazz said:
Isn't the whole blue light thing to deter junkies by making it harder to see your veins?
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Apparently it just spooks the criminals because it's a major change in the street.
 
TV Shows end for a variety of reasons, the most common of which are cancellation through lack of ratings or the show running its natural course. Others reach their end in more unusual ways, for example 'Australia's Naughtiest Home Videos' was axed halfway through its first (and only) telecast in 1992, ordered off the air by an angry Channel 9 Chairman Kerry Packer.

Another Australian show that had an unusual ending was 'It's A Knockout', which was on the Channel 10 Network in the 1980s. If this was before your time, It's A Knockout was a brightly colored, high energy, loud and madcap game/athletic challenge show hosted by the late Billy J Smith and Fiona MacDonald (the forgotten sister of Jacqui MacDonald) that had teams from around Australia competing. Well, from New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and South Australia, but if you were from Western Australia, the Northern Territory, Tasmania and possibly the Australian Capital Territory (unless Canberra teams could compete for NSW) you couldn't be on the show.

Anyway, the show was a ratings winner from its debut in 1985 and continued to be so over the next few years, until it was abruptly axed in mid 1987. The end of It's A Knockout however was not due to falling ratings, but due to noise complaints by residents of Dural north of Sydney where the show was filmed, and who found it too loud for their liking. There was an attempt to resurrect the show in 2011, but it sank without trace.
 
emuboy said:
TV Shows end for a variety of reasons, the most common of which are cancellation through lack of ratings or the show running its natural course. Others reach their end in more unusual ways, for example 'Australia's Naughtiest Home Videos' was axed halfway through its first (and only) telecast in 1992, ordered off the air by an angry Channel 9 Chairman Kerry Packer.

Another Australian show that had an unusual ending was 'It's A Knockout', which was on the Channel 10 Network in the 1980s. If this was before your time, It's A Knockout was a brightly colored, high energy, loud and madcap game/athletic challenge show hosted by the late Billy J Smith and Fiona MacDonald (the forgotten sister of Jacqui MacDonald) that had teams from around Australia competing. Well, from New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and South Australia, but if you were from Western Australia, the Northern Territory, Tasmania and possibly the Australian Capital Territory (unless Canberra teams could compete for NSW) you couldn't be on the show.

Anyway, the show was a ratings winner from its debut in 1985 and continued to be so over the next few years, until it was abruptly axed in mid 1987. The end of It's A Knockout however was not due to falling ratings, but due to noise complaints by residents of Dural north of Sydney where the show was filmed, and who found it too loud for their liking. There was an attempt to resurrect the show in 2011, but it sank without trace.
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The 4 states were the 4 states that had channel 10 at the time.

The 2011 revival was a disaster - whoever thought putting McDonalds employees up against life savers and paramedics would be a good idea!
 
It's illegal to own just one guinea pig in Switzerland because they get lonely.

Switzerland has forbidden people from keeping lone guinea pigs because the animals are sociable and need each other's company. As a result, the sudden death of a guinea pig, shocking enough in itself, can also place the hapless owners outside the law if they only had two of the pets.
 
emuboy said:
TV Shows end for a variety of reasons, the most common of which are cancellation through lack of ratings or the show running its natural course. Others reach their end in more unusual ways, for example 'Australia's Naughtiest Home Videos' was axed halfway through its first (and only) telecast in 1992, ordered off the air by an angry Channel 9 Chairman Kerry Packer.

Another Australian show that had an unusual ending was 'It's A Knockout', which was on the Channel 10 Network in the 1980s. If this was before your time, It's A Knockout was a brightly colored, high energy, loud and madcap game/athletic challenge show hosted by the late Billy J Smith and Fiona MacDonald (the forgotten sister of Jacqui MacDonald) that had teams from around Australia competing. Well, from New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and South Australia, but if you were from Western Australia, the Northern Territory, Tasmania and possibly the Australian Capital Territory (unless Canberra teams could compete for NSW) you couldn't be on the show.

Anyway, the show was a ratings winner from its debut in 1985 and continued to be so over the next few years, until it was abruptly axed in mid 1987. The end of It's A Knockout however was not due to falling ratings, but due to noise complaints by residents of Dural north of Sydney where the show was filmed, and who found it too loud for their liking. There was an attempt to resurrect the show in 2011, but it sank without trace.
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I had the board game. It was as crap as you'd expect but did last a few months before half of the pieces broke
 
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