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Polymeme frontpage feed all stories published on polymeme Review: Australia, the movie TIMESONLINE | ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT :It has every Australian cliché you could hope for, from kangaroos and Nicole Kidman to aborigines going walkabout and, yep, Waltzing Matilda... READ MORE Art's too expensive, says Hirst (worth £200m) THE INDEPENDENT :Damien Hirst has become the nation's biggest art export, transforming the global market with multimillion-pound works and earning his place as one of the world's most expensive living artists at auction... READ MORE In Waning Hours, Bush Administration Fortifies Oil Shale Industry GREEN INC. :Firing off another decision that is angering environmental groups, the Bush administration has issued new regulations to develop oil shale deposits straddling almost two million acres of public lands in Colorado... READ MORE Murdoch: The Future Of Newspapers Goes Beyond Dead Trees READ/WRITEWEB NEWS :Rupert Murdoch, the chairman and chief executive of News Corp., gave a speech on Sunday titled "The Future of Newspapers: Moving Beyond Dead Trees... READ MORE Japanese scientists clone embryo of endangered rabbit YAHOO NEWS :Japanese scientists said Tuesday they had created a cloned embryo from the dead body of an endangered species of rabbit and are hoping for a birth... READ MORE A guide to the U.S. security agreement with Iraq LOS ANGELES TIMES :Reporting from Baghdad -- Iraq's parliament Monday began considering a security agreement that will determine the future of American forces in the country and, if approved, set Dec. 31, 2011, as the end date for the U.S. occupation of Iraq... READ MORE Beijing propaganda chief hatches plan to combat age of internet news TIMES ONLINE : China’s propaganda officials are experimenting with a revolutionary new policy to manage their message in the age of the internet: reporting the news as it happens... READ MORE The rift between ER docs and hospitalists NOTES FROM DR. RW :A survey published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine documented numerous handoff errors between ER physicians and hospitalists resulting in near misses and, in some cases, patient harm... READ MORE Toilet Tales: Inside the World of Waste TIME :Save the poop jokes, because Rose George has heard them all. When the London-based journalist decided to write a book on human waste, toilets and the world sanitation crisis... READ MORE A cheap chip rapidly identifies cancer proteins in a drop of blood WWW.TECHNOLOGYREVIEW.COM : Measuring proteins in the blood can help doctors determine patients' cancer risk and monitor the health of the elderly and people with chronic diseases... READ MORE Genomicron: Science by press release. GENOMICRON :Taking a big hop forward in marsupial research, scientists say they have unraveled the DNA of a small kangaroo named Matilda. And they've found the Aussie icon has more in common with humans than scientists had thought... READ MORE Why the Dems' Drive to Aid Detroit Is Stalling Out TIME : The Bush Administration and congressional Republicans have gone out of their way to be gracious since Democrats won the White House and expanded their majorities in both chambers of Congress earlier this month... READ MORE A more efficient generator could convert more of the wind's energy into electricity. WWW.TECHNOLOGYREVIEW.COM : ExRo Technologies, a startup based in Vancouver, BC, has developed a new kind of generator that's well suited to harvesting energy from wind. It could lower the cost of wind turbines while increasing their power output by 50 percent... READ MORE Peak Oil: Prominent Peaker Tells Allies to (Temporarily) Pipe Down WSJ.COM: ENVIRONMENTAL CAPITAL - WSJ.COM : So urges Robert Hirsch, one of the true eminences of the peakist crowd. Hirsch penned a seminal 2005 report for the Energy Department called “Peaking of World Oil Production” that warned of stark consequences as world oil supplies tighten... READ MORE Japanese greenhouse gas emissions reach record level INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE :Japanese greenhouse gas emissions rose 2.3 percent to hit a record high in the year that ended in March, hurt by the extended shutdown of some nuclear power plants, while emissions from manufacturers continued to rise... READ MORE