Are you a time-poor student who still somewhat fosters an interest in the news? Can you sometimes not be bothered to sift through the endless stream of media to find what matters to you? Well then, we have the thing for you! Here’s what’s trending: Legionella outbreak in Sydney CBD An additional two people have been linked to the Sydney legionella outbreak, bringing the total of NSW residents infected to five. Legionella is a severe—and often lethal—form of pneumonia, often causing long-term health impairments. NSW Health Communicable Diseases Branch director Dr Vicky Sheppard said the outbreak is as a result of…
Author: Zoe Simmons
Led Zeppelin isn’t the first band to be put through the litigation ringer—but they are the latest. The US District Court of California ruled last Friday the band’s hit song Stairway to Heaven had “substantial similarities” to Spirit’s Taurus. It’s claimed the bands toured together in 1968 and 1969, but the remaining members of Led Zeppelin don’t recall it. Spirit’s late Randy Wolfe (also known as Randy California) wrote “Taurus” in 1967, while Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant and guitarist Jimmy Page released Stairway to Heaven in 1971. It has been played over three million times, earning Led Zeppelin more than $562 million since 2008. [embedyt] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHFxncb1gRY[/embedyt] Judge…
Reported support for the University of Wollongong’s smoke-free policy has been questioned and members of the Wollongong Undergraduate Student Association (WUSA) have called for it to be reviewed. The draft policy, which endorses a smoking ban on campus for everywhere except Uni Bar, received around 80 responses during its consultation period (December 15, 2015 – January 15, 2016). Seventy-eight per cent of responses, which were collected via SOLS message, supported the ban. WUSA President Sam Tedeschi said the survey response was not representative of the university’s 30,000 students. Smoke-Free Policy Working Group student representative Ine Seljeseth said a ban would benefit the health…
This week on When Veggies Bite Back, unsuspecting victims bought veggies thinking they’d be doing themselves some good only to get a nasty—and sometimes deadly—surprise. Yesterday, a Queensland woman found a red back spider in her broccoli, and that inspired us to look at the history of risky veggie encounters.
A new study by researchers at the University of Oxford has concluded with a region-specific global health model which could potentially save millions of lives through diet change. The study is the first of its kind to look at the benefits of increasing the consumption of fruits and vegetables and decreasing the consumption of red meat and other animal by-products. Lead author of the study Dr Marco Springmann, said there would be great value in switching to a sustainable, plant-based diet “What we eat greatly influences our personal health and the global environment,” he said. As animal agriculture is the…
Jerry Springer Television host Jerry Springer is the latest in a string of high-profile people to blast US presidential candidate Donald Trump. “I don’t think there’s any way that Donald Trump gets elected as president of the United States,” he told CNN. Mr Springer said he wouldn’t want the next US president to be someone who had been on The Jerry Springer show. “The show is entertainment, the show is a circus, the show is stupid. I’ve said that for 25 years,” he said. “The show is what it is, but my gosh . . . you’re talking about running…
AFL Hawthorn Hawks player Jarryd Roughead has been sidelined indefinitely after he told teammates yesterday that his melanoma is back. The 29-year-old first faced melanoma in mid July last year. Teammate Jordan Lewis said the situation was “extremely serious” and that Roughead was only weeks away from re-joining the season after a knee reconstruction. Hawks General Manager Operations Chris Fagan said it was an emotional time for players. “He [Roughead] was determined to let them know and to also let them know he was going to be okay,” Fagan said. Wollongong Bulldogs coach and president Lee Murray said he took the dangers of…