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The first non-opioid painkiller
https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/the-first-non-opioid-painkiller
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Turnout is up, and election day is down | The Tally Room
https://www.tallyroom.com.au/60666
We are now getting to the point in the election count where all of the primary votes appear to have been counted. We don’t have all the preference data yet – Bradfield is obviously stil…
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Helen Garner's love letter to her grandson, and football - ABC listen
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/conversations/helen-garner-grandmother-under-16s-football-grandson/104452736
When writer Helen Garner began following her grandson’s under-16s football team, she gained a new appreciation for 'the ordinary beauty of human society'.
Jim Rogers on love, loss and living well with younger-onset dementia - ABC News
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-16/dementia-australia-younger-early-onset-alzheimers-jim-rogers/105379262
There were signs for years that something was wrong, and Jim Rogers's doctor put it down to stress. But when the 55-year-old couldn't silence his phone, his world began to unravel.
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Ruth Coker Burks, the cemetery angel - Arkansas Times
https://arktimes.com/news/cover-stories/2015/01/08/ruth-coker-burks-the-cemetery-angel
In the darkest hour of the AIDS epidemic, Ruth Coker Burks cared for hundreds of people whose families had abandoned them. Courage, love and the 30-year secret of one little graveyard in Hot Springs.
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Bonus: The Lab Leak Goes Mainstream
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2040953/episodes/17282956-bonus-the-lab-leak-goes-mainstream
By popular demand we are releasing last month's Patreon bonus episode on the main feed! We chart the transformation of the lab leak from an unfounded theory promoted by right-wing cranks to an unfounded theory promoted by liberal journalists.Where to find us: Peter's newsletterPeter's other ...
Hope on the Horizon – Lessons for Europe stemming from the Australian and Canadian elections - Diritti Comparati
https://www.diritticomparati.it/hope-on-the-horizon-lessons-for-europe-stemming-from-the-australian-and-canadian-elections/
di Jock Gardiner1. Within a week of each other, Australia and Canada held federal elections that produced remarkably similar results: the incumbent parties of the centre-left winning power; their Trump-curious conservative opponents not only losing the elections, but also seeing their leaders lose their parliamentary seats. In what has been a pretty gloomy period for this Blog’s European audience – the electoral situation in Romania, recent Reform wins in UK local elections...
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The good times in tech are over
https://www.seangoedecke.com/good-times-are-over/
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At 21, Madison Griffiths dated her university tutor. It was legal, consensual – and a messy grey area | Books | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jun/29/madison-griffiths-sweet-nothings-teacher-university-student-relationships-dating-sex-ntwnfb
The author’s new book Sweet Nothings follows four women who, like her, dated their professors – and explores how even a consensual pedagogical relationship can result in ‘a unique harm’
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The rise and fall of Adam Bandt: the Greens leader who embraced a different approach to politics | Paddy Manning | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/10/adam-bandt-rise-and-fall-of-greens-leader-who-embraced-different-approach-to-politics
The outgoing member for Melbourne understood if the Greens genuinely want to be a party of government they have to win lower house seats
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Saddam Hussein: Erotic Novelist - Behind the Bastards | iHeart
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/saddam-hussein-erotic-novelist-29264138/
The stunning decline of the preference for having boys
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/06/05/the-stunning-decline-of-the-preference-for-having-boys
Millions of girls were aborted for being girls. Now parents often lean towards them | Leaders
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Do viruses trigger Alzheimer’s?
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2025/03/17/do-viruses-trigger-alzheimers
A growing group of scientists think so, and are asking whether antivirals could treat the disease | Science & technology
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‘I don’t think you’d ever change it’: Inside the famous Sydney oval that’s slowly falling apart
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/i-don-t-think-you-d-ever-change-it-inside-the-famous-sydney-oval-that-s-slowly-falling-apart-20250515-p5lzh3.html
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My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts · The Fly Blog
https://fly.io/blog/youre-all-nuts/
My smartest friends have bananas arguments about LLM coding.
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Fertility clinics Melbourne IVF and IVFAustralia accused of bungling records of donated sperm - ABC News
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-15/ivf-sperm-donor-mistake-wrong-family-list-dna-not-related/105404898
Some of Australia's largest IVF clinics have passed inaccurate information about children born from sperm donations to their male donors.
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We Found The Guy Behind Australia's Greatest Ever Meme
https://www.buzzfeed.com/markdistefano/seriously-john-howard-djs-like-a-mad-cunt
If you remember when Howard DJ'd like a mad c*nt...this story is for you.
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‘Mind-blowing’: inside the highest human-occupied ice age site found in Australia | Indigenous Australians | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jun/17/dargan-cave-shelter-ice-age-site
The Dargan cave, in the upper reaches of the Blue Mountains, was previously believed too hostile for human habitation
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Elon-Trump, Welcome to the Thunderdome - TPM – Talking Points Memo
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/elon-trump-welcome-to-the-thunderdome
We’ve clearly clarified that the Elon-Trump feud is real. I assume you’ve seen or heard about the back-and-forth social media salvos in which Trump has…
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How Murdoch's News Corp Still ... - Lamestream - Apple Podcasts
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/how-murdochs-news-corp-still-has-influence-the-sports/id1810214465?i=1000710321070
Has Rupert Murdoch's News Corp lost its ability to influence Australian politics and society? Os and Scott debate how powerful the right-wing media empire reall
I Asked My Haters to Critique My "Worst" Outfit
https://www.cartoonshateher.com/p/i-asked-my-haters-to-critique-my
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Peter Dutton is being tested for the first time, and he doesn’t seem to be passing
https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politics/australian-politics/federal-election-2025/2025/04/05/peter-dutton-election-test
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Oxford academics drank from cup made from human skull, book reveals | Archaeology | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/apr/22/oxford-academics-drank-from-cup-made-from-human-skull-until-2015-book-reveals
Decades-long use of chalice at Worcester College highlights violent colonial history of looted human remains, says Prof Dan Hicks
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Why I Find It Hard to Write About Being a Widow
https://www.dataandpolitics.net/why-i-find-it-hard-to-write-about-being-a-widow/
Why is it so hard to write about being a widow? My story has no redemptive arc. No community rallied, no family came together, no strength was discovered. Just sudden loss and ongoing adaptation without resolution. These are the widowhood stories we don't want to hear but need to tell.
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