CANBERRA, Australia — For all the complaints and comedies about office politics and getting along with co-workers, it seems most Australians missed going into a workplace during the Covid-19 lockdowns. New research has found that 70 percent of Australians say they find their most meaningful and regular social connections at work, outranking their homes and community. And when it comes to which location they prefer to do jobs from, the data is clear: most do not want to work from home all the time. The desire to return to a group workplace is strongest among Gen-Z workers (aged 18 to 26), who also…
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MELBOURNE, Australia — For the past 40 years, at the frontline of almost every major Australian disaster has been Rob Gordon. The Port Arthur massacre and Bali Bombings, the Black Saturday bushfires in 2009, and the Black Summer blazes a decade later, the “inland tsunami” that tore through Toowoomba during the 2011 floods — the list goes on. The clinical psychologist has dedicated his career to helping traumatized communities pick up the pieces after unimaginable horrors. That work has earned him a spot on the Queen’s Birthday Honours list, with the 74-year-old being awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia on June 13 among more than 1,100…
CANBERRA, Australia — Australian users of social media giant Facebook will soon receive information and updates on blood donation opportunities on the platform’s app. Facebook will, from June 14, establish a new “blood donations” feature for Australians where they can sign up for updates about giving blood, learn of donation opportunities at local centers and invite friends to donate. The feature will be available for those aged between 18 and 65. Similar schemes for Facebook users overseas have prompted more than 100 million users to sign up for information on blood donation, the social media platform said. Australian Red Cross Lifeblood,…
“Death is the final consumer sector that has remained neglected from an innovation standpoint,” said Ron Gura, CEO of Empathy, an Israeli startup whose app recently came out of stealth with a technological approach to the bureaucracy of grief. The reason is that humans have an aversion to dealing with death, Gura said. “Logistics are made hard by grief, and grief is made hard by logistics.” How hard are those logistics? After a loved one dies, a family member will spend an average of 570 hours dealing with issues that are often entirely new for the recently bereaved: Arranging a…
Two bear cubs, Mish and Lucy, abandoned in the Albanian mountains, are now in a custom-built enclosure in the UK. The Eurasian brown bear siblings were abandoned by their mother in 2019, possibly due to the destruction of their habitat, and faced certain death. After a successful fundraising campaign by the Wildwood Trust, the cubs were moved to a temporary enclosure in Belgium before arriving at Wildwood Escot in Devon, England, on June 4. “Lucy and Mish had a tough start in life but really thrived under the care of our expert keepers in Kent,” said George Hyde, general…
A spacesuit that was once worn by a German astronaut during his journey to the biggest space station in existence at the time is now being prepared for display at a German space exploration exhibition. German pilot and former German Aerospace Center astronaut Klaus-Dietrich Flade, 68, wore the spacesuit in 1992 when he visited Russia’s MIR space station. The suit has now landed at the Deutsches Museum in Munich where it will be exhibited after its restoration. Head of the object restoration and research department Marisa Pamplona is leading the team at the museum tasked with restoring the Russian-made spacesuit,…
An estimated 600,000 American women have hysterectomies every year to treat a variety of non-cancerous conditions. Although the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recommends transvaginal rather than abdominal hysterectomy as the safest, least invasive and most cost-effective approach with the fastest recovery time, only 15–20 percent of uterus removals are done this way. Many more hysterectomies could soon be done vaginally, now that the Hominis robotic surgery system from Israeli company Memic Innovative Surgery has received marketing approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and $96 million in Series D investment. Hominis gets around anatomical barriers that human surgeons…
CHENNAI, India — “We are in a golden age of entertainment in India — this is the best time to be a creator and consumer of great stories,” Netflix, the world’s largest streaming service, said in a post on June 2. Netflix is opening its first fully-owned post-production facility in India’s entertainment capital Mumbai, as the company furthers its ambitions in the country. The post-production facility will be fully operational by June 2022 and have 40 offline editing rooms for showrunners, directors, editors, and sound designers. India is the world’s largest producer of movies, and Mumbai, the capital city of Maharashtra on…
PUNE, India — India, which faced a severe second wave of Covid-19, is still scrambling to complete the vaccination trials for children. The pace of trials concerns, especially because some experts suggest that the third wave of Covid might severely impact children. There is no prediction on when the third wave is likely to hit the country. The Central Drugs Standard Control Organization — India’s apex regulatory body for pharmaceutical and medical devices — announced the beginning of second and third phase trials for children on June 1. Seven premier medical institutes in India are conducting trials for children aged between 2 and 18 years.…
NEW DELHI — Hours before “Radhe: Your Most Wanted Bhai”, Bollywood’s first big-budget film that went for a multi-platform release, its makers urged the audience to avoid piracy. But within hours, the movie was circulating on piracy sites, social media, and messaging platforms, including WhatsApp and Telegram. “We offered you to watch our film ‘Radhe’ at a reasonable price of INR 249 [$3.4] per view,” Salman Khan, a top Indian actor, tweeted two days later. “In spite of that, pirated sites are streaming ‘Radhe’ illegally, which is a serious crime.” The film was released by Zee Studios across screens in over 40 countries…