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Otterday! And Open Thread.

By lauredhel on 2012-01-07 • ( 11 )

Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to get off your chest? […] Commiserations, felicitations, temptations, contemplations, speculations?

"Just north of Coogee beach" by Aschaf on Flickr (CC BY)

The annual Sydneysiders’ Coogee femblogger trip: Sunday Jan 15

By Chally on 2012-01-05 • ( 2 )

Come join us at Coogee on the 15th!

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2857 days of not waking up with intrascapular pain

By tigtog on 2012-01-04 • ( 4 )

This post is part of our Summer Slowdown repost series: in March 2004 I had breast reduction mammoplasty surgery.

Quick hit: Not as easy as calories in =/= calories out

By Mindy on 2012-01-03 • ( 11 )

New study shows it is not as easy as calories in =/= calories out for people trying to maintain long term weight loss.

Melbourne Hoydenizen meet-up: Sunday Jan 8

By Jo Tamar on 2012-01-01 • ( 32 )

Anyone up for a meet-up in Melbourne? Sunday 8 Jan, From 11.30 am (late arrivals fine!), Portland Hotel, 127 Russell St (cnr Lt Collins – NW corner).

We will be in the casual bar area.

Today in WTF?

By Mindy on 2012-01-01 • ( 15 )

Today in WTF?

A small plastic mini-figure from Lego's new line targeting girls

“I’ll put up with it, at least for now, because [Lego]’s just so good for little girls’ brains”

By tigtog on 2011-12-31 • ( 6 )

“If it takes color-coding or ponies and hairdressers to get girls playing with Lego, I’ll put up with it, at least for now, because it’s just so good for little girls’ brains,” says Lise Eliot. A neuroscientist at the Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science in Chicago, Eliot is the author of Pink Brain Blue Brain, a 2009 survey of hundreds of scientific papers on gender differences in children