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New study shows more time walking means less time in hospital

  • Written by: Ben Ewald, Senior Lecturer, University of Newcastle
imageIf all the over-55s got walking, we could save almost $2 billion in health care costs each year.from www.shutterstock.com.au

In my practice as a GP, I have been impressed by a few energetic and active 80 year olds who remain in good health while many their age have succumbed to various chronic diseases. So in 2005, when the University of Newcastle...

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Wary of human-animal hybrids? It's probably just your own moral superiority

  • Written by: Brock Bastian, ARC Future Fellow, Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne
imageThe idea of human-animal hybrids often leads to people picturing something like an ancient Greek monster, such as the Chimera.Wikimedia

In Greek mythology, the Chimera is a monstrous fire-breathing creature, typically described as having the head of a lion, with a snake as a tail and the head of a goat emerging from its back.

Just as it terrorised...

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Guide to the classics: Alice Pung on Robin Klein's The Sky in Silver Lace

  • Written by: Alice Pung, Author (non-fiction, fiction, young adult), University of Melbourne
imageThe 'sky in silver lace' is Vivienne’s euphemistic metaphor for the encroaching hard times.Shutterstock

I can still remember reading All in the Blue Unclouded Weather when I was 12, and then the excitement I felt when the librarian at our tiny Catholic school, Mrs Kerr, told me that there was a sequel. She put it on reserve for me, and I read...

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