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  • Smith, Smith and missing the mark

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    mr tog and I settled down to watch a popcorn flick on cable the other night: Mr and Mrs Smith. When we saw the trailers for its cinema release, we both thought that while it wasn’t worth cinema prices we… Read More ›

  • Come back when you can play with the big boys

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    Repellent neologism of the week: minigarch (anyone worth less than $50m) I guess that makes me a nanogarch, if I’m lucky. seen and defined in today’s Crikey! email

  • Poverty and Peace

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    poverty generates hostility and anger, and […] peace is impossible where poverty exists. Let’s just repeat Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammed Yunus’ words for emphasis, shall we? poverty generates hostility and anger, and […] peace is impossible where poverty exists… Read More ›

  • Belated Friday Furry: a confusion of cuteness

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    Original caption: Fudge the cat says “so which are my kittens!” originally uploaded here

  • Mystery outbreak of deaths due to excessive mirth

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    It’s because Christopher Hitchens is slayin’ ’em with this killer material. Hohohohohoho. More from Twisty, Amanda, Echidne and Shakespeare’s Sis. Of course, we’re not laughing with him. (It’s the way that he tells them) Addendum: Welcome Sideshow readers! (thanks for… Read More ›

  • In honour of Eleanor

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    A long time e-friend has just welcomed the arrival of his second daughter, to be known as Eleanor. Congratulations! I love that name, as Eleanor of Aquitaine (at various times Prince of Aquitaine as ruling Duchess, Queen of France, Queen… Read More ›

  • Control your jealousy

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    Next year, I will be paid to torture teenagers who want to win Australian Idol. The tigling’s high school needs tutors who are willing to supplement the instruction given in the school music curriculum. It will only be a few… Read More ›

  • Mighty testosterone

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    LONDON ““ Fatherhood significantly reduces men’s testosterone levels, a study has shown. Researchers in the United States compared levels of the male sex hormone among single men and married men, both with and without children, among students. Those who were… Read More ›

  • Maybe I’m not crazy enough

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    A life without thinking is not a life. But only the crazed can think deeply. The text in the “about” field of new blog discovery – Amygdala Reconnected, a Chinese blog on health science, weight loss and life in general…. Read More ›

  • Ancients yet again smarter than thought

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    I love the way we keep finding that people in the ancient and prehistoric world were actually much less backward than previous generations of scholars thought. image from Wikipedia It was found at the bottom of the sea aboard an… Read More ›