Day: 2008-07-06

Poverty, “Risky Behaviour”, and the Virtuous Healthy-Sick-Person Interrogation

By lauredhel on 2008-07-06 • ( 9 )

WA Today reports that poor people who have been seriously ill die sooner after hospital discharge than wealthy people do. No surprises there – we all know that poor people have poorer health outcomes across the board. The results of… Read More ›

“Blog your way to happiness”

By lauredhel on 2008-07-06 • ( 2 )

[These random happybloggers, who are definitely not Helen and Suze, come to you courtesy of manmadepants on Flickr and a Creative Commons licence.] Hoydenizens Helen and Suze both featured in an Age article this week, “Blog your way to happiness“…. Read More ›

SF Sunday: cult SF films

By tigtog on 2008-07-06 • ( 7 )

This topic seems timely given the discovery of a full-length version of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis that had been disregarded for years in the archives of a museum in Buenos Aires. Image Source: Emory Libraries Metropolis is a classic utopia revealed… Read More ›