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Should we celebrate Australia Day?
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/should-we-celebrate-australia-day/On the 23rd January 2011, at 2.30pm, the Museum will host an Australia Day Debate. You can listen to our speakers, Sam Watson and Nigel Parbury, debate whether the 26th January is the most appropriate date to celebrate our national identity. You will also have the opportunity to ask them your own
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A Sticky Situation
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/a-sticky-situation/On a street post in Darlinghurst a young female Titan Stick Insect, measuring 21cm in total, was found and taken to the Australian Museum. The insect must have become separated from its gumtree, unable to fly it wandered to the nearest structure and climbed to the top.
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Early coral spawning this year
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/early-coral-spawning-this-year/Most Acropora species at Lizard Island spawned on the night of 25 November this year, the third night after the full moon. On the following night, many goniasterid and favid corals spawned, and on the night after that it was the turn of Porites corals.
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Fish Collection tour
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/fish-collection-tour/Join Fish Collection Manager Mark McGrouther on a quick tour through some of the Fish Collection at the Australian Museum.
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Fish in hot water
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/fish-in-hot-water/Last night we had a terrific talk in the beach house by Prof Phil Munday of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies and James Cook University: "Fish in hot water: how will climate change affect coral reef fishes?"
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QR Codes at the Museum
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/qr-codes/This week at the Australian Museum we have decided to go down the QR Code lane and place some extra interaction on a few of the Museum's favourite specimens.
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Quest for the perfect indoor pinhole camera
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/quest-for-the-perfect-indoor-pinhole-camera/How do you create a pinhole camera that can be used inside a room with no windows or natural light and have the ability to demonstrate its own workings?
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Candiru - careful where you go...
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/candiru-careful-where-you-go-/Over the years quite a few people have asked me about the Candiru. Is it really true that this fish can end up inside the bladder of an unfortunate person who urinates in the wrong stream?
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National Science Week with Professor Fiona Wood
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/national-science-week-with-professor-fiona-wood/Professor Fiona Wood is a groundbreaking plastic surgeon who was named Australian of the Year in 2005. Through her pioneering work she has dramatically changed the way burn wounds are managed.
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'Living fossil' eel in an undersea cave
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/living-fossil-eel-in-an-undersea-cave/Dr Dave Johnson from the US National Museum in Washington just emailed me about an incredible eel that he and colleagues recently described. The fish, Protanguilla palau, is now classified in a new family, the Protanguillidae.
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