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Author with bipolar 'finds insight' through microdosing LSD

Ayelet Waldman spent her life struggling with debilitating mood swings, anger and depression. Then she discovered LSD.
How corporate boards can avoid failures

How can company failures be avoided? One consultant says boardrooms need to focus on problem finding, rather than problem solving. Ann Arnold reports.
'You are what you eat'

Food practices are not performed in isolation, but are social practices that structure ways of relating with others, writes Christopher Mayes.
Gas forgotten in energy debate between coal and renewables

As politicians continue trading barbs over the merits of renewable energy versus coal-fired power generation, missing from the debate these days has been the role of gas. Justine Parker reports.
Prosopagnosia: What it's like to live with 'face blindness'

People with prosopagnosia know when they see a face, but their brain can't process who it belongs to. Diane Dean reports.
How Bob Brown and Tasmania's beauty inspired a concerto

Bob Brown recently helped inspire the creation of a brand new oboe concerto, premiering at the Sydney Opera House next week.
Celebrating the Soviet Union's bizarre bus stop architecture

Architects working in the Soviet Union transformed simple bus stops into pieces of art and acts of defiance.

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