Tag Archives: Australia

Science Sunday 08-06-17

The Progressive Wing Posted on by

Clingy Drones Vice News’ Motherboard reports that a new type of drone has successfully been designed by researchers at the Createk Design Lab at the University of Sherbrooke in Quebec that can autonomously alight on, and cling to, vertical surfaces, both hard and soft. Besides obvious spy applications that the drone was not specifically designed for, the researchers suggest that the UAV can be used to survey areas damaged by earthquakes, or to inspect tall structures that are difficult to get to.   Zealandia Recently, a team of eleven geologists strongly recommended that the sunken land mass between Australia and … Continue reading →

Physician’s First Watch: ‘No Mass Fatal Shootings in Australia Two Decades After Semiautomatic Gun Ban’

The Progressive Wing Posted on by

From the New England Journal of Medicine — Physician’s First Watch (23 Jun 2016): ———————————————————— No Mass Fatal Shootings in Australia Two Decades After Semiautomatic Gun Ban By Amy Orciari Herman Edited by Susan Sadoughi, MD, and Richard Saitz, MD, MPH, FACP, FASAM Australia has experienced no mass fatal shootings since it banned rapid-fire long guns in 1996, a JAMA study finds. The ban included guns already owned by citizens and mandated government buyback of all prohibited firearms. Using national government statistics and news reports, researchers compared firearm deaths during two decades before the ban (1979 through 1996) and two decades afterward (1997 … Continue reading →