Getting started - slate floors
Natural slate is hard wearing, doesn't fade and comes in some beautiful colours. Slate is sold by the square metre. Multiply the length and width of the area and subtract any parts that aren't going to be tiled. Slate is rigid, so it must be laid ... [... more]
Better Homes & Gardens Australia |
Slate Magazine
An entertaining and genuinely informative compilation... click for more> Slate Magazine [... more]
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Flame Robin
Male Flame Robins have a bright orange breast and throat, and are white on the lower belly and undertail. The top of their head and back is dark slate grey and there is a clear white stripe on the folded wing. The bill is black and the legs dark ... [... more]
Australian Museum |
Arnoux's Beaked Whale
One hundred and fifty years ago a skull collected from a 9.7m whale stranded in Akaroa Harbour, Banks Peninsula, New Zealand was found to represent a new species of beaked whale. It was given the name Arnoux's Beaked Whales are slate grey to ... [... more]
Australian Museum |
Franklin Foer
Franklin Foer is a staff writer at the New Republic and a frequent contributor to Slate. His writing has also appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic Monthly, Foreign Policy, and Spin. He lives in Washington, D.C. [... more]
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Daniel Gross
Daniel Gross, the "Moneybox" columnist for Slate, is the author of several books and is a contributor to the "Economic View" column in the Sunday New York Times. His writing also appears frequently in magazines such as New York and [... more]
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Laying slate
Slate is an impressive surface and laying it yourself is just as impressive. Basic carpentry tools: tape measure, square, string line and pins, spirit level (900mm) Cutting slate Hire a diamond-bladed wet saw or a tile saw. (Slate will split ... [... more]
Better Homes & Gardens Australia |
Caitlin Macy
Caitlin Macy graduated from Yale and received her MFA in creative writing from Columbia. She has been published in The New York Times Magazine and Slate. She lives in New York City. Caitlin Macy's remarkable first novel is an evocation of a time ... [... more]
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Merfyn Williams
Written by Merfyn Williams The Slate Industry Merfyn Williams [... more]
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David Plotz
David Plotz is deputy editor of the online magazine Slate. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and two children. To find out more, you can visit www.thegeniusfactory.net It was the most radical human-breeding experiment in American ... [... more]
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Hart Seely
From the pages of The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Slate stagger Frank Cammuso and Hart Seely, restoring a cheerful sanity to our deranged lives and times. Frank Cammuso and Hart Seely [... more]
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Kate M. Taylor
Kate Taylor is a culture reporter at the New York Sun; her writing has also appeared in Slate and the New Yorker. She lives in New York. Here, collected for the first time, 19 writers describe their eating disorders from the distance of recovery, ... [... more]
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