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• Journalwatch: Indigenous people with lung cancer receive less treatment, die sooner

  By lauredhel on 2008-05-19 • ( 7 )

  The Indigenous Health 19 May 2008 issue of the Medical Journal of Australia has just gone live, and the table of contents is available here. [Free registration is required to read the full-text articles.] This research paper leapt out at… Read More ›

• Femmostroppo Awards for 2007: A Retrospective

  By lauredhel on 2008-05-19 • ( 36 )

  Hoyden About Town is pleased to present: The FemmobolshoStroppo Awards: A 2007 Retrospective! You can see the nomination thread here. Bear in mind that this wasn’t a democratic vote. Our idiosyncratic nomination and selection process has resulted in a list… Read More ›

• Face of rescue: Women’s work

  By lauredhel on 2008-05-18 • ( 12 )

  Yahoo! News China has this photo of a police officer in an emergency shelter breastfeeding an orphaned baby. Heartbreaking, but somehow hopeful as well. So many babies must have no one there at all; this baby is lucky, in one… Read More ›

• Otterday

  By lauredhel on 2008-05-17 • ( 8 )

  It’s Otterday again! From Cute Otters.

• And a gecko up ya clacker

  By lauredhel on 2008-05-16 • ( 5 )

  ABC News: “Gecko in egg ‘must have crawled up cloaca’” The Australian Egg Corporation has expressed surprise at the discovery of a gecko inside a chicken egg. Darwin doctor Peter Beaumont was cooking dinner when he cracked open the egg… Read More ›

• “I’m better because I’m whiter”: Top Model

  By lauredhel on 2008-05-15 • ( 13 )

  Australia’s Next Top Model is on again. These models were put on the spot, asked to name name five things that made them a better model than the woman standing next to them. Alexandra identifies her strengths: “I’m taller, I’m… Read More ›

• Images from the mailbag

  By lauredhel on 2008-05-15 • ( 8 )

  Two images from my current mail pile: The cover of the current Medicus, from the Australian Medical Association (WA branch). The President’s Column is a wholehearted rejection of the national registration plan from COAG (Council of Australian Governments). Many pages… Read More ›

• Wednesday Soapblogging

  By lauredhel on 2008-05-15

  Some soap pictures for you! The first is a couple of well-cured soaps from a few months ago. I like this photo because it shows the extreme ends of the range of textures achievable in handmade soaps. The purple soap… Read More ›

• Librarything “most often marked unread” books meme

  By lauredhel on 2008-05-13 • ( 21 )

  Via willendorf5761 (Who knew there were already 5760 “willdendorf”s on eljay?) What we have here is the top 106 books most often marked as “unread” by LibraryThing’s users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart… Read More ›

• Tropposphere

  By lauredhel on 2008-05-12 • ( 15 )

  Ken Parish of Club Troppo has just introduced what he calls the Tropposphere. The Tropposphere is a Clayton’s feedreader of selected news, opinion, and analysis. The aim is to aggregate the “best or most popular” Australian blogs who “consistently publish… Read More ›