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Is fast mode killing the op shop? The old saver says it's getting harder and harder to find treasure

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Sue Carmichael shoots through a skirt rack at her local operations shop in Goulburn, New South Wales. Longtime savers don’t have to look at brands to know which one is from “one of those chains”. He took out one to demonstrate. “The elastic goes down and sits well, but your eyes can tell,” he says. The 58-year-old almost exclusively buys second-hand goods. Today, she was looking for a pair of white shoes for an event in Brisbane, but she said it was getting harder and more expensive to find good quality items at the op shop. The advent of fast fashion has disrupted the traditional life cycle of clothing with fewer clothes designed with the second or third owner in mind. Laura Washington encourages her students to look for second-hand clothes. ( Provided: Laura Washington ) Laura Washington, head teacher at The Fashion Design Studio at TAFE NSW, says fast fashion is the opposite of the heirloom clothing that thrifters cherish. “The life of these garments is greatly reduced – things lik

Four Points: Utility Blicavs, Blues hopes, against Tigers and fast growing Daicos

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He is also the emblem of Geelong this year. While he has been a good performer for a long time, what he represents is how Geelong draws something from the cast in the role. Tom Atkins’ game last week was very good in possession. He had a run-with role with Sam Walsh on Saturday night and while Walsh is one of the Blues’ best players, Atkins’ pressure around the contest is still significant. Geelong has had an impact on this cast of Atkins, Brad Close, Max Holmes, Mark O’Connor and even Gryan Miers, all of whom have pace and are used to the high-pressure games Geelong plays. Geelong killed Carlton on turnover, which is an area that has improved dramatically in 2022, and it was pressure from the fast fringe type that was significant in that change. Jeremy Cameron benefits and helps make it happen. Football analysts will always look at these seemingly immeasurable elements of pressure in football and conclude that they are an essential ingredient in any major league. Geelong, now at

Air samples from the Arctic region show how fast the Earth is warming

While climate change is taking effect everywhere on Earth, the Arctic Circle is feeling its effects primarily, in the form of melting glaciers, melting ice sheets, and decreasing sea ice. Key players in climate change include clouds covering the Earth’s surface and microscopic aerosols in the air called ice core particles that seed the formation of ice in these clouds. This dance of ice cores, cloud cover and heat all play a major role in climate. But the all-important ice-forming aerosols, which can be mineral dust, microbes, or ocean spray, are rarely studied in the Arctic – where they need to be studied most – because little is known about their effects there, and not many scientists venture further north. . However, Colorado State University scientists did. In 2019, an intrepid team including atmospheric research scientist Jessie Creamean boarded a ship, sailed north, collected thousands of samples of air, seawater, sea ice, snow, and meltwater, and brought home the physical evi

Astronomers Have Seen A Record-Breaking Magnetic Field In Space, And It's Incredible

Deep in the Milky Way, roughly 22,000 light-years from Earth, a star unlike any other roars with a magnetic force that beats anything physicists have ever seen. With 1.6 billion Tesla, a pulsar called Swift J0243.6+6124 broke the previous record of around 1 billion Tesla, found in the vicinity of pulsars GRO J1008-57 and 1A 0535+262. For a little context, your average new fridge magnet comes in at around 0.001 Tesla. More powerful MRI machines manage to reach around 3 Tesla. A few years ago, engineers were credited with hitting the semi-respectable 1,200 Tesla, keeping it in a flash of just 100 microseconds. So it makes sense that 1.6 billion Tesla would demand some truly amazing physics. The kind that can only be achieved by massive objects crammed into impossible volumes and spinning at incredible speeds, fast enough to accelerate electrons to ridiculous speeds. Swift J0243.6+6124 is already considered a noteworthy star. A type of super-compact cosmic heavyweight known as a pulsar

Researchers aim for the source of the fast radio burst

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Enlarge / An event on the surface of a magnetar can produce a rapid radio explosion. A fast radio burst is exactly what the name suggests: a sudden wave of photons at radio frequencies that often lasts less than a second. After the scientists finished convincing themselves that they saw no equipment interference, a search was carried out for what generated the large amounts of energy involved in fast radio bursts (FRBs). The discovery of the first iterative FRB tells us that the process that generates the FRB does not destroy the object that generated it. Eventually, FRBs were discovered that were associated with events at additional wavelengths, allowing their source to be identified: magnetars, the subset of neutron stars that have the most extreme magnetic fields in the Universe. While that shows excellent progress, it still doesn’t tell us anything about the physics of how the explosion was generated—knowledge that will probably tell us why most magnetars don’t and why they t

Earth Sky | Whooshing sound! Fast star orbiting the Milky Way's black hole

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This image shows the center of our Milky Way galaxy. It shows the position of stars in the so-called S star cluster, a small group of high-speed stars orbiting our Milky Way’s central black hole (at the black cross). Speedy star S4716 has set a new record as the fastest known of all these stars. Image via Peissker et al. Fast star orbiting the Milky Way’s black hole Scientists in Europe said on July 5, 2022 that they had found the fastest star known to orbit a black hole. And not just any black hole… it orbits Sagittarius A*, the giant black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. Our central black hole weighs about 4 million times the mass of our sun. The newly discovered star is called S4716. It reaches an orbital speed of 5,000 miles per second (8,000 kps) around the black hole, or about 5,000 times faster than the fastest fighter jet. Imagine seeing star – a huge ball of turbulent gas that glows on its own – shooting at this speed! By the way, on the other hand, ou