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• Duncan Fine talks sense on BMI

  By tigtog on 2007-12-15 • ( 7 )

  It’s not anything that our readers familiar with Shapely Prose don’t know, but using the BMI as the sole determinant of whether someone is overweight or obese is a really unreliable measurement. Given the hysteria this week about Australia’s “obesity… Read More ›

• By the time you get to the byline, one detail will not surprise you

  By tigtog on 2007-12-14 • ( 11 )

  —The author is a screenwriter (single) who divides his time between London and Los Angeles Thanks (I think) to RPG for the link, who was incoherent with rage. This guy is the poster child for Arsehat Central, and the shame… Read More ›

• An Embuggerance

  By tigtog on 2007-12-14

  Author Terry Pratchett has revealed that he has been diagnosed with a rare form of early onset Alzheimer’s disease. I can only imagine how distressing it must be for someone who has spent his life as a wordsmith to start… Read More ›

• Friday Hoyden: Lizzy Bennet

  By lauredhel on 2007-12-14 • ( 9 )

  [image source: Rotten Tomatoes.] Our Friday Hoyden this week is fictional, but she’s a character that many of us identify with or would like to identify with – Elizabeth Bennet. Even when she was completely wrong, Elizabeth held the courage… Read More ›

• Those dreaded office Xmas parties

  By tigtog on 2007-12-14 • ( 5 )

  Working from home as I do, I miss out on most of this, and am glad of it, although we are having a neighbourhood party this evening. Last week, Someone (Who Shall Not Be Named) came home wearing this paraphernalia:… Read More ›

• Indigenous voices on Aurukun; and the Law Society tells the public to butt out

  By lauredhel on 2007-12-13 • ( 6 )

  [map courtesy of Google Maps.] A few people have wondered “What are indigenous people saying”? in the fallout of the Aurukun gang-rape case. I’ve tried to gather some voices. If you’ve seen others, please add a pointer to them. Boni… Read More ›

• Wet summer

  By tigtog on 2007-12-13 • ( 7 )

  How odd it is for me to write those words after the last few dry years. The word(s) of the last weeks has been “La Niña”, the sister phenomenon to the prolonged El Nino event that has brought us severe… Read More ›

• Preparing for the holidays

  By tigtog on 2007-12-13 • ( 6 )

  So, how’s everybody else doing? I’m panicking. Cards, gifts, decluttering – I’m behind on all of it. Today I have to drastically trim the rampant “La Nina summer” foliage in the garden (tomorrow is the fortnightly Green Waste collection that… Read More ›

• Women’s health: Are we taking a risk by dumping the Democrats?

  By lauredhel on 2007-12-13 • ( 7 )

  The MJA this month also brings us Mary Lander’s story: “The fight for a life-saving drug: a personal perspective”. Mary Lander has a relentlessly-growing meningioma adjacent to her brainstem. This is a non-cancerous tumour of the lining of the brain…. Read More ›

• New baby gorilla at Taronga!

  By lauredhel on 2007-12-12

  Frala and Kibabu of Sydney have a newborn baby! Born today, the 2 kg baby boy has joined brother Fataki in the Taronga Zoo. A visitor noticed blood on Frala’s coat, and her and the newly-born baby were found to… Read More ›

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