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Friday, November 6, 2009
History of TV

When TV Launched In Australia…

12:00PM Nick Broughall | If you get frustrated at the length of time for new gadgets to be released in Australia today, spare a thought for your grandparents… Despite regular broadcasting in the late 30s overseas, television didn’t come to Australia until 1956, over 16 years later. More »
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Thursday, October 23, 2008
Science

Study Finds the Colour of Dreams Dependent On the Colour of Your Childhood TV

12:00AM John Mahoney | Further evidence that media’s placating massage fingers mine even the deepest jelly regions of our brains, a new study has claimed to prove the long-thought notion that the type of TV and film exposure during youth drastically affects the colour of dreams, even much later into life. In the study, only 4.4 percent of those who grew up with colour TV reported dreaming in B&W, but those who were raised on Howdy Doody and other monochrome entertainments had colourless dreams nearly 25 percent of the time. More »
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