Shaking gelignite from the family tree
What hidden health secrets lie waiting in your family tree – just like a stick of old explosives?
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Who are we? A bunch of chip-munching, fruit and nut bar eaters
What would a 19th-century French gourmand say about Australia’s 21st-century diet? Sacre bleu cheese, of course.
From boy to man-monster
Adolescence is a jaw-dropping depiction of a male child on the rickety suspension bridge to adulthood, buffeted by gaming, peer pressure, and social media. Into this storm arrives The Passenger Seat.
On the bus to the retirement zone, first stop old fogeydom
It could be when you reach pension age but the true point of ascending into old fogeydom is the moment someone offers you their seat on the bus. So when do you decide to get off?
Through thick and thicker: why marriage makes men heftier
We need to update our wedding vows to take into account the likely exploding girth of the groom. Or so says another international study.
Why do humans go to extreme lengths to alter their bodies?
It is certainly not to be different, but perhaps to be the same as their clique. It goes back as far as Viking tooth filing (and Gold Coast shopping malls).
Boots, boats and escape hatches steer flood town through Alfred
This time on the cataclysm roundabout, things were very different in Lismore; with emergency services, officials and battle-hardened residents ready when Alfred called.
Monopoly passed the time – but our thoughts are with poor ‘Cookie’
Poor Tom ‘Cookie’ Cook. He bravely clung to a tree, in contact with rescuers trying to get to him, before being swept away. So close to being saved. Gone forever.
At home and powerless in every way as unwelcome visitor looms
Visibility just a few metres. Still keeping an eye on the gigantic hoop pine in front of the house and garage. I lock the front door for no reason and we huddle together and wait for Alfred’s eye.
Mist and malice: disaster-weary residents line up again
It was impossible to look at the ocean and not think – this is getting nasty. This is turning dangerous. Cyclone Alfred could be lethal.
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