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  How a mindfulness retreat inspired modern sports psychology

  In the 1960s a US sports institute began promoting the idea of using supernatural powers to achieve athletic greatness. Some ideas were "bonkers", others are still used in sport today.

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  The Black Knight, the Iron Maiden and a Pacific island forever changed by phosphate mining

  Their ancestors were on opposite sides of a lucrative and devastating mining project that changed a Pacific island forever. And yet, their love bloomed.

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  Why this student covered her graduation gown with a possum-skin cloak

  It took her four months of sewing until her fingers tingled, but Theresa Ardler's graduation cloak tells a story that dates back many generations.

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  As long as there's been vaccination, there's been resistance

  The anti-vaccination movement has been around since Edward Jenner scraped pus from the skin of sick cows. Here's what's driven the sentiment over the last two centuries.

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  Elton John biopic charts decades of drugs, inner demons, dysfunctional relationships

  Rocketman, already generating Oscar buzz, is admirably unafraid to engage with the star's homosexuality and grapple with the toughest chapters of his life.

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  The 'totally whacked out' theme park bankrolled by George RR Martin

  At the House of Eternal Return, secret passageways and hidden portals offer something its creators say fills a human need.

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  Mystery surrounding cliffside deaths 170 years ago still haunts small town

  A series of killings that happened 170 years ago have created deep rifts in South Australia’s Waterloo Bay — and a new cliffside monument is at the centre of the debate.

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