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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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Kids
Generic image of angry young female child.

Can you tame your little monster?

IF your kid is distressingly aggressive, we’ve got bad news: it’s a result of their genetic makeup. But a new study says they can be led to ‘grow out of it’.

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Space
The 'filament' at the centre of our galaxy that has astronomers perplexed: Picture: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Baffling discovery at galaxy’s heart

A STRANGE ‘split’ at the centre of our galaxy has astronomers intrigued. It’s 2.3 light years long. It snakes towards a supermassive black hole. And we’ve no idea what it is.

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Space
Mars Base Camp is Lockheed Martin’s vision for sending humans to Mars in about a decade. From the orbiting outpost, scientist/astronauts can take excursions in an Orion to the two moons of Mars.

The year we got closer to Mars

FOR the past 40 years, landing a human on Mars has been “‘just 10 years away”. But in 2017 we saw a new approach to the journey’s immense challenges.

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Space
Modeling of the black hole Sagittarius A, based on what the general relativity theory predicts it would look like. Radio astronomoers are in the process of attempting to capture the first real image of a black hole. Picture: MONIKA MOSCIBRODZKA

Black hole is about to be exposed

SOON, we will get to see an actual black hole for the very first time. The data is in. The numbers are being crunched. This is what astronomers expect it to show.

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Science
We just dodged six apocalypses

We just dodged six apocalypses

THE Earth dodged at least six apocalypses in 2017. But many people continue to believe we’re facing the end of days – and prophecies of doom still loom over us.

WTF
US Navy gun-camera footage of a UFO intercepted by its fighters. Picture: USN

UFO ‘weirds out’ US Navy pilots

IT WAS an unidentified flying object. It outflew two of the US Navy’s most advanced fighter aircraft. And it was just one of a series of recent strange sightings.

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