The Monsoon Frog

Tips for your work email - it is not YOURS. It can be tempting and easy to reply to anything using your work email.  Common sense indic...

Vegemite back in Australian ownership Bega Cheese has now finalised its takeover of the Vegemite brand on 6 July 2017, after a cy...

It is now mid June. Deep in the dry season with low humidity [ 20% or so], quite vigorous SE winds, no rain, cool to cold nights [ < 20C]...

The monsoon is visiting again.........or maybe it is best to consider it has been here since just after Christmas. Only been a few days it...

Those amazing orchids flowered again today. How is it that all of them seem to flower on the same day.........every time?   Not just at ou...

No metal can claim a legacy comparable to gold. Gold has been used to show affectionate love, but it has also represented...

7 Rare Earth Elements that Run our World [Infographic] by the team at 911 Metallurgist

The link provides a direct link to an infographic and text about Zika virus from data in early 2016. Not totally relevant for Australia b...

Most consider them a pest.........they excavate mulch and toss it everywhere in their hunt for food in suburban gardens. Yet, are they fil...

Rain fell in late January.......so lowest ever records of rain for January were not broken. But that said.......the total amount for Janua...

As we approach the end of January one needs to realise that rainfall over the past month has been VERY LOW in Darwin. Quite a burst of wet...

A Detox Diet The following article was on the ABC web site today and really says it all.  Do not believe the hype about detoxifying to ...

This infographic was produced by Jeff Desjardins a founder and editor of Visual Capitalist, a media website that creates and curates v...

Yes, frog weather has arrived in the north over the past week. With close to 600mm in the rain gauge since the week prior to Christmas, in...

Lucara Diamond Corp has uncovered the world’s second largest single diamond - not the largest!. The 1111 carat, type IIa, gem was found fr...

Over the past week the weather has turned NASTY, VERY NASTY.  Hot and sticky, relatively windless and oppressive.  Sunday was awful- 36.9 ma...

How to Reduce Your Water Footprint (Infographic) It’s no secret that we use a lot of water in our day-to-day lives. However, eati...

US Marijuana Use Has More Than Doubled in a Decade by Tia Ghose, Senior Writer   |   October 21, 2015 11:00am ET ...

After 13 years of planning, the Solar Impulse SI2 took off from Al-Bateen Executive Airport in Abu Dhabi at 7:12 a.m. local time a day ago. ...

Thomas L Friedman is an author and journalist now working for the NY Times.  He has written a number of books and was based in the Middle E...