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Nat Newman is a freelance writer and editor from Australia. She has lived and worked in the UK, China and New Zealand and now lives in Croatia where she is attempting to learn its impossible language while working on her first novel. She blogs about travel and writing at www.lividlili.com and can be found on Twitter @lividlili

Science

Star Laws

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At the end of January, $5.25 million was handed out to teams of scientists attempting to reach the moon. The potential launch date for these private enterprises is December 2016 and if any of them succeed it will be the first private Earth…
Biology

Shots of Science: LHC, Spacetalk & More

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Ups and downs at the LHC Don't they look happy! It’s been an exciting few weeks over at CERN. After a scheduled 2 year downtime, the Large Hadron Collider was due to restart last week, but the momentous occasion was delayed by a short…
Television

NCIS – A Sleeper Agent

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Today I find myself in the curious position of writing about the American television show NCIS, the long-running crime-procedural, which you have, without even meaning to, completely by accident, watched at least once. Writing about…
Whats On

Electric Picnic 2014 | 17 | Chic

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Freak Out and Dance, Dance, Dance Forget everything you think you know about disco. Sure, we all like to have a little embarrassing dance when 'Stayin Alive', 'Dancing Queen' and 'Kung Fu Fighting' come on. But disco was first and…
Literature Features

Breaking Bad Reading Habits

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You're here on Headstuff having a poke around, so I'm going to assume that you love to read and learn about new things. May I ask you something personal? Why do you read? And what criteria do you use to select the books you read? All…