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Legalise the right to choose assisted death
July 28, 2014 The Age Editorial Life is inestimably precious and should be protected – but not at all costs. Many terminally ill people suffer dreadfully, physically and psychologically, as their death draws near. This newspaper believes such people have a right to physician-assisted death, also referred to as voluntary euthanasia, in strictly defined circumstances, […]
Remembering Names…
I have a problem remembering names. I used to bluff my way around the problem… (After counseling someone for a 50-minute hour, I usually – not always – pray for them. But as I begin praying, I sometimes realize I’ve forgotten their name. So my prayer has to include ‘my brother here…’ ‘my friend…’ etc.) […]
TV: QI is quite interesting, and charming too
TV: QI is quite interesting, and charming too Date July 2, 2014 Ben Pobjie Quite charming: QI on ABC1. You have to be a certain kind of person to love QI (ABC1, 8pm). A tweedy, geeky, bookish person who loves Trivial Pursuit and makes a hobby out of responding to passing comments with impromptu scholarly lectures about the obscure […]
Thinking: ‘It Hurts too Much!’
Shocking but true: students prefer jolt of pain than being made to sit and think Report from psychologists at Virginia and Harvard Universities tackles question of why most of us find it so hard to do nothing A woman alone with her thoughts on a couch. The researchers have learned that people hate being left […]
Dairy foods and cancer
Will giving up dairy defeat cancer? Date June 3, 2014 Cherrill Hicks Photo: James Davies In 1993, the breast cancer that had plagued Jane Plant since 1987 returned for the fifth time. It came in the shape of a secondary tumour – a lump in her neck the size of half a boiled egg. Doctors […]
Gluten Intolerance: Just a Myth?
Gluten intolerance – myth or misunderstood? June 27, 2014 Gluten-free foods.Photo: Eddie Jim Andrew Masterson On current assumptions, about 1 million Australians today will go to significant effort and expense to consume foods that are free of gluten. A significant number ¢â‚¬“ about 1 per cent of the population ¢â‚¬“ will do so because they […]
The Girl Who Loves Sharks
Shark Girl gives Jaws a makeover Date June 11, 2014 Ben Pobjie An interesting statistic: every year sharks kill five people around the world. In the same time, hippos kill 3000, yet the number of movies about coastal communities terrorised by lethal killer hippos is vanishingly small. The fear of sharks embedded in our consciousness […]
Thomas Piketty: The super-rich and the rest of us
The super-rich and the rest of us: author Thomas Piketty Mark Colvin reported this story on Thursday, June 12, 2014 18:26:00 MARK COLVIN: In an Essential Media opinion poll published this week, Australians were asked to compare fairness and equality in the country to the situation 20 years ago. Forty three per cent said they thought Australia […]
Heroes: why they are so incredibly important…
Refusing Resignation: Moral Heroes in an Age of Victims Susan NeimanABC RELIGION AND ETHICS13 JUN 2014 IN A TIME OBSESSED WITH VICTIMS, MORAL HEROES EXEMPLIFY HOW TO LIVE IN THE WORLD INSTEAD OF JUST EXISTING IN IT, AND REMIND US THAT LIFE IS LARGER THAN THE DIMENSIONS WE ARE URGED TO ACCEPT. Why should we think about […]
‘Switch off Life Support’? He could hear every word…
Dead to the world Date June 7, 2014 Richard Marsh and Jeff Hudson “Limb by limb – block by block – the lights went out”: Richard Marsh. Photo: Winni Wintermeyer When Californian fitness fanatic Richard Marsh suffered a severe stroke, his doctors urged his wife, Lili, to consider switching off his life support. Unbeknown to them, […]
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