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• WTF, Australia?

  By tigtog on 2013-05-02 • ( 1 )

  

  Fiona Katauskas nails it.

• Discussion Thread: Shakespeare Uncovered

  By Anna on 2013-05-01 • ( 17 )

  

  The recent import from the BBC 4, Shakespeare Uncovered, is a six-part series in which one well-known public face of the theatre each episode gives an in-depth, personal walk-through a selection from Shakespeare’s plays. Four examine a single play, the… Read More ›

• Queuejumping rhetoric a new low in fight against reproductive rights

  By tigtog on 2013-05-01 • ( 9 )

  the Member for Dawson said priority should be given to other drugs, particularly those that helped cancer patients and extended the lives of people who were sick.

  “I simply don’t understand why this particular drug would find its way to the head of the queue before those drugs,” Mr Christensen told the Daily Mercury.

• Spacecraft exploring the Solar system

  By tigtog on 2013-05-01

  

  Last week’s news of plans to clear up humanity’s space-junk, aka orbital debris, currently cluttering up Low Earth Orbit, alarmed quite a few folks. In better space news, the many non-junk bits and bobs we’ve got floating around up there are busy gathering data so that we can learn more about our planetary and stellar neighbours.

• Evidence-based medicine

  By tigtog on 2013-05-01 • ( 2 )

  

  With the (non)efficacy of homeopathy making the news again (with rumblings that the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) is considering delisting various homeopathic remedies), I was reminded – after I wondered how in hell they got listed by the TGA in the first place – of a post I first published four years ago:

• Media Circus: Off-shore Hellholes and Budget Black Holes edition

  By tigtog on 2013-04-30 • ( 6 )

  

  As usual, the topic of these media-circus posts is just a discussion-starter. Please discuss any sociopolitical issue currently making the news, or highlight egregious churnalism and those far too rare instances where the MSM rises above it.

• Review: Lady Sings it Better

  By Jo Tamar on 2013-04-29 • ( 11 )

  

  Feminist commentary of popular songs, excellent music and a whole lot of laughs: Lady Sings it Better.

• Some women want to stay home with children and feminism needs to make peace with that

  By hatbluemilk on 2013-04-29 • ( 28 )

  

  Alexandra Carlton has an article in The Age this weekend, “The retro housewife” that proves it is just as possible to build a faux phenomenon in Australia around smart women dropping off the career ladder to become domestic over-achievers as… Read More ›

• Despite the gym boom we are fatter than ever.

  By Mindy on 2013-04-28 • ( 14 )

  

  This piece from Mark Dapin in the SMH details how despite the growing number of gyms in Sydney the population is still, statistically, becoming fatter. Usually I like Mark Dapin’s writing, it is funny and usually about himself and his… Read More ›

• So who won’t be flying Virgin until they make seat-to-seat delivery opt-in?

  By tigtog on 2013-04-27 • ( 10 )

  

  Do you want your airline encouraging strangers to use their inflight “entertainment” system to send their fellow passengers unsolicited gifts of drinks or food (with all the accompanying expectations) in a metal cage high in the air from which there is no way out?

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