Posted by in Australia, Non-Fiction, Published “Come on then, love,” Poppa calls from his armchair in the warm living room of my grandparents’ Gold Coast waterfront apartment. Home lies a thousand kilometres to the cooler south. I love the heat of Australia’s Queensland. “Coming, Poppa,” I call. I slip my nightdress over my head and skip into the breezy front…Read more »
Posted by in Health, Psychology, Published, Science Chronic smoking blackens your lungs, blocks your arteries, and causes bad breath. But how does excessive pregnant puffing affect the unborn child? Could the drag of a smoke while pregnant cause Tourette’s syndrome? Between 1996 and 2002, the Danish National Birth Cohort (DNBC) interviewed, observed, and collected data about the lifestyle, health, and habits of…Read more »
Posted by in Psychology, Published, Science It is 4:00 A.M. You sit in the basement of your house. Your thighs stick to a worn leather chair. Your armpits sweat, your eyeballs glue to the screen in front of you. The fingers of your left hand shackle a joystick. The fingers of your right hand punch the control keys. Today’s looming economics…Read more »
