100 Degree Difference in Temperature Last Night

Last night I was listening to 96Five, a Christian radio station in Brisbane, Australia that plays a mix of general market and Christian music.   Check it out here.   It was already mid-morning into the new year there, and I figured that I could beat the rush into 2009 and already have an idea what the new year looked like.

Anyway, they did a weather forecast, and it most places they were expecting a high of +34C, but in this place called Ippswich, they were expecting a high of +38C, which is about 100F.  Meanwhile, back at home, my Weather Network indicator on my computer is showing that we’re heading to a low of -18C, which is about -1F.   Their high temperature on a summer mid-afternoon Thursday would be occurring at the same time as my Wednesday mid-winter night.

101 degrees difference.   I mean, are we even on the same planet?

One picture is Canada, the other is Bondi Beach, Australia.   Can you tell which is which?    (Airline tickets for a family of four to Australia or New Zealand gladly accepted. )

Australia to Introduce “God-Free” Religious Education

VICTORIAN state primary school students will soon have an alternative — religious education lessons taught by people who do not believe in God and say there is “no evidence of any supernatural power”.

The Humanist Society of Victoria has developed a curriculum, which the State Government accreditation body says it intends to approve, to deliver 30-minute lessons each week of “humanist applied ethics” to primary pupils.

Accredited volunteers will be able to teach their philosophy in the class time designated for religious instruction. As with lessons delivered by faith groups, parents will be able to request that their children do not participate.

Continue reading the story at theage.com.au, here.