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5 ways the Internet has changed how we think
Google has an answer for almost anything. Any remarkable slice of information, any essay on a mind-boggling multitude of subjects. Facts about bats, about countries, about politics and philosophy. Facts about why a certain thing smells a certain way. Why your toes are all tingly. It has the answers so you don’t have to. And [read more]
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Are sportspeople heroes?
It’s not often you’re publicly abused before breakfast. But that’s what happened after my Today Show appearance when I exclaimed that I didn’t understand the huge deal about Cadel Evans and thought the coverage of sporting victories was disproportionate. My skin is pretty thick but I will admit the abuse came as a bit of [read more]
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Updated: You can choose the gender of a child AFTER it’s born
It has come to our attention that all the elements of the original story printed in The Hindustan Time may not be true. Please click here for clarification. Did you even think that this was possible? To surgically transform a baby girl into a baby boy? And did you know that [read more]
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Crying in public…
I am a crier. I cry when I am hurt, I cry when other people hurt, I cry when I hear something that touches me deeply and I often cry when I feel really happy. It’s just part of who I am. And, other than the fact that I often have eye make up on [read more]
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6 Monday news bites (July 25)
Morning team Mamamia. It was a terribly sad weekend in all ways. Terror attacks in Norway, the death of a drug addicted singer and a bullet train crash in China. Not to mention the ongoing famine in the Horn of Africa. Catch up on some of what you missed right here. 1. Norwegian gunman and [read more]
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Watch what she does in her sleep
Who doesn’t feel like a little bed dancing? This stop motion video known as “Her Morning Elegance” has become a pop-art phenomenon. It even earned a nomination in the 52nd Grammy Awards and has been screened at film festivals around the world. It was was created from 2096 still photographs which seems like a LOT [read more]
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Twin toddlers shaking it like a polaroid picture
What’s cuter than a dancing baby? These twin toddlers. With over 1.5 million Youtube views for their dance moves to Outkast’s hit “Hey Ya!” we’re not the only ones who think that. One twin concentrates hard on perfecting the dance moves, while the other twin is more interested in singing the lyrics… it’s adorable, take [read more]
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Amy Winehouse dead at 27.
Amy Winehouse has been found dead in her London flat, aged 27. Police are investigating the ‘unexplained’ death, although it was well known that the ‘Rehab’ singer battled drug and alcohol addictions for the past few years. The British soul singer had a rocky relationship with success, ever since her breakthrough records. This from the [read more]
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The four reactions to this magazine cover.
What do you get when you put three plus-sized models in their underwear on the cover of Italian Vogue? It seems one of four reactions: 1. “How outrageous that those models are even called ‘plus-sized’. They look average to me.” Yes they do. But not for models. In fashion, any woman larger than size 10 [read more]
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Terror attacks in Norway: at least 91 dead.
A gunman dressed as a police officer has opened fire at a political youth camp in Norway and a bomb has been detonated outside the Prime Minister’s Office in the capital Oslo. The death toll is still rising. 84 were killed in the youth camp shooting – the single most deadly attack by a lone [read more]
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What Ingrid Poulson survived is unimaginable…
It’s funny how the universe can send people your way. Years ago, back in 2003, I remember hearing news coverage about a crime that made me gasp, it was so horrific. I quickly flicked the radio station, changed the TV channel or flicked over the story in the newspaper whenever it came up. I [read more]
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The weird world of maternity concierges
Ever since Martin Short played Franck in the early 90s movie Father of the Bride, we’ve become accustomed to the idea of wedding planners. Two decades later, it’s a valid career choice with many brides-to-be paying professionals to help them in their journey to matrimony. Now, in the next incarnation for busy women and their [read more]
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10 ways to tell if the guy you like is gay.
Ladies, the good ones are either gay, taken or missionaries in the Congo. I can’t help you avoid lusting after the last two, but I have some responsibility to help you avoid the first, which can be heartbreaking. Sure, some say God invented gay men to take lonely girls to school formals. [read more]
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Best & Worst + Week in Pix
We are trying for something new this week, to shake things up we’ve combined our regular best and worst post with the week in pictures gallery. Feel free to comment on the pictures, tell us about the best and worst parts of your week or both. But first, a quick summary of the week on [read more]
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7 Friday news bites (July 22).
Hi there Mamamiers. Welcome to the news with bite. As we say our final goodbyes to the last NASA space shuttle which touched down safely last night, let’s check out what else has been making news. Historic or not. 1. Derryn Hinch sentenced to 5 months home detention, banned from all [read more]
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The ‘mullet’ dress: would you wear it?
It’s the fashion news we’ve all been waiting for… the mullet is back and now ‘business at the front, party at the back’ can apply to your wardrobe too. The new trend in dress hemlines is short at the front, long at the back and it seems no A-lister is immune to its charms. Model [read more]
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A post about faith….
From Mia: I’ve known Erica Bartle for a few years now even though we’ve only seen each other face to face a couple of times. I first got to ‘know’ her through her hugely popular and thoroughly engaging blog Girl With A Satchel where she writes a lot about magazines but more and more [read more]
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Justin Timberlake and Jimmy Fallon’s history of rap duet
Justin Timberlake and Jimmy Fallon performed a duet called A History of Rap – Part 2 on Jimmy Fallon’s Late Night show, a sequel to the duo’s 2010 mashup. It has been on high rotation in the Mamamia office this morning. If like us, you love all the songs, you can download the playlist on [read more]
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Why will some Australians pay 6 times more for this fridge than they should?
Imagine that you didn’t have a fridge, you didn’t have anywhere to store fresh ingredients for your family’s meals. Imagine not having a washing machine or being without basic furniture – a bed to sleep in, a chair to sit in or a table to sit at. It sounds grim. It probably feels frightening, disempowering [read more]
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This surprised me about Bridesmaids…
I think I may have been the last person in the Western World to have seen Bridesmaids. Naturally, I loved it. But something startled me a little bit. The women. Their faces. Their bodies. Laugh lines. Pigmentation. Freckles. Moles. It was bloody awesome but also a visual surprise. They weren’t 22. [read more]
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House husbands. Do they get respect?
Next time you’re throwing a dinner party — you may want to save a seat for journalist Derek Rielly. More on him in a sec. So. Stay-at-home dads have been in the press a bit this past month. It seems the issue of respect has been raised. As in, the 12,000 [read more]
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8 Thursday news bites. (July 21).
Morning you wonderful things. The end of the week is drawing near, so pop your feet up and dive into these news bites this morning so you can get across the news you need to get across with none of the messing around. Starting with PMS and milk: 1. Milk eases [read more]
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Do you know a man who would wear this?
Borat doesn’t count. The Menswear Spring 2012 collections have just wrapped up in Paris and to many of us that doesn’t actually mean anything. I’m not sure who apart from other menswear designers pay particular attention to men’s fashion shows, as no man I know would wear any of the clothes in the gallery, unless [read more]
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Some jobs add value to the world. Others? Don’t.
A while ago I met a lovely fireman by the name of Russell. While I must confess to thinking all firemen are lovely, (they are at the very least given the benefit of loveliness until asshole behaviour proves otherwise) he was – noble profession aside – a very decent sort of bloke who proved to [read more]
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Baby it’s cold outside, but is it diseased?
It’s pretty much mid winter and most of Australia is feeling it. Some of us more so than others, in fact Australia is in the grip of a flu outbreak with the number of people suffering from the flu four times higher than at the same time last year. According to Belinda Tasker from The [read more]
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Open post of the week
Anyone else a bit sleepy after staying up late watching Rupert, James and Rebekah at the parliamentary hearings last night? I’m such a media nerd. It’s open post time when I give you an overview of the week around here and you can discuss anything at all you want to, in the comments. The Today [read more]
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The 2UE “comedy” sketch which left me cold.
I like to think I have a pretty broad sense of humour. I laughed out loud at The Hangover. I think the Chaser boys had moments of comedic brilliance. And Chris Lilley? Well he’s a genius in my books. Then there’s the fact that I have written comedies myself. I [read more]
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6 Wednesday news bites (July 20)
Good morning one and all. Tired. Oh so tired. Stayed up last night to watch the inquiry into the News of the World phone hacking scandal and it was, umm, weird viewing to say the least. Like watching somebody sit a test you knew they were going to fail. Anyhow, catch up on the gist [read more]
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Wrong turn? Happy Feet, the broken penguin.
Nobody quite knows where or why, but Happy Feet the wayward Penguin got lost. Not ‘turned down the wrong street and ended up at a 7/11, did you say turn left at the red sign’ lost but ’3000km out of his way’ lost. He’s now apparently the penguin equivalent of Clyde [read more]
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Why 10 million people are starving in the Horn of Africa (cheat sheet)
Ladhan Waraq lost her eight-year-old daughter to a crippling food shortage that is sweeping the Horn of Africa, a collection of countries in Africa’s northeast. It’s a devastating wave of starvation that is so far affecting 10 million people. Ladhan trekked from Somalia to Kenya in order to seek the help of desperately stretched humanitarian [read more]