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Jamie Seidel
Jamie SeidelContributor

After evolving a digital heart (not the pacemaker kind) out of inky veins, Jamie just wants an excuse to learn something new. But he’s fully aware his 32 years’ experience in the news industry has given him just enough knowledge to be dangerous. International affairs. History. Defence. Science. Space. Technology. He has a fascination for them all – particularly when it comes to social fallout. Translating tough concepts into common terms is his craft. His passion is to explore the big picture encompassing world events.

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Evolution
Brazilian native indian woman of the Amazonian Patamona tribe attends a demonstration against a possible Supreme Court ruling in Brasilia, Brazil Tuesday 09 Dec 2008. Brazil's Supreme Court is preparing to rule on whether to break up the vast Amazon Indian reserve of Raposa Serra do Sol , where about 18,000 Indians live along with a handful of large-scale rice farmers. Activists say a ruling against the Indians would be a blow against policies that grant Indians land and autonomy to maintain their culture but farmers and local politicians in Roraima state in northern Brazil say leaving the land entirely in Indian hands halts economic growth.

Australian link to ancient Amazon

DID an ancient tribe of Australian Aborigines colonise the Amazon? Unexpected new DNA results may have uncovered a long-forgotten wave of migration some 15,000 years ago.

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World
Military vehicles are seen at Texas Army National Guard Camp Swift, Wednesday, July 15, 2015, in Bastrop, Texas. Jade Helm 15, a summer military training exercise, that has aroused alarm among archconservative Texans, begins Wednesday outside the Central Texas town of Bastrop. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

US civil war? Troops storm Texas

SPECIAL forces troops are on the march in Texas. The sound of gunfire is echoing in town streets. Conspiracy theorists fear the worst. But are they right?

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Space
This artist's conception shows the closest known planetary system to our own, called Epsilon Eridani. Observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope show that the system hosts two asteroid belts, in addition to previously identified candidate planets and an outer comet ring. Epsilon Eridani is located about 10 light-years away in the constellation Eridanus. It is visible in the night skies with the naked eye. The system's inner asteroid belt appears as the yellowish ring around the star, while the outer asteroid belt is in the foreground. The outermost comet ring is too far out to be seen in this view, but comets originating from it are shown in the upper right corner. Astronomers think that each of Epsilon Eridani's asteroid belts could have a planet orbiting just outside it, shepherding its rocky debris into a ring in the same way that Jupiter helps keep our asteroid belt confined. The planet near the inner belt was previously identified in 2000 via the radial velocity, or

Is this Solar System 2.0?

THERE’S something odd about our Solar System. We’ve found some 470 stars with planets around them. But it’s only now that we’ve spotted one that looks anything like our own.

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Space
How the ‘space nerds’ celebrated

How the ‘space nerds’ celebrated

NINE years of nervous tension certainly builds up. While the New Horizons probe sailed past Pluto, the world’s astronomers were biting fingernails and letting off steam on Twitter.

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