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By now, most art history devotees know that on Christmas Eve in 1888, painter Vincent van Gogh allegedly took a razor to his left ear and chopped the appendage right off. Nearly none of them, however,...
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She left commercial TV to be the voice of Australians suffering in silence.
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If this month's Elena Ferrante–related news has taught us anything about our reading habits, it's that we're obse ed with authorship. The woman behind the popular Neapolitan novels wished to rem...
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Latest figures show tradies' positions are the most 'in demand'.
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Books can build bonds between generations.
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An obligation to read is no kind of incentive to pick up a book, and it often has the opposite effect, rendering the intended reader incapable of turning off the television or logging off Facebook.
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There were many notorious Victorian bushrangers, apart from the Kelly gang.
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Jimmy the koala became an international poster boy for needy koalas.
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Look at their successes as well as their failures.
Monsanto is expanding in a country it once helped destroy.
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HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam ― Fifty-five years ago this month, the U.S. Army began spraying millions of gallons of the toxic defoliant known as Agent Orange over large swaths of southern Vietnam. Today,...
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From the woman who can fit every bit of rubbish she's produced in three years into a single jar, to the cafe using 'Jesus water' to clean its kitchen, the 'Zero Waste' movement is growing on both side...
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Emily Graeber sat on a plane, her long hair falling over her face, and pre ed her nose against the window. Then she leaned back in her seat, trying not to cry. It was October 2007. Graeber, a 15-year...
Long before the pill, people had to get very inventive.