edward learRalph Waldo Emerson once said that language is “fossil poetry”. It is made up, he said, of images which “have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin”. Some of that poetry is on the nose.
An extraordinary number of English words associated with the nose begin with the letters sn-. The organ itself can be...
Research shows women consistently trade time in employment for greater time in domestic work even when their resources are on par with men. f1uffster (Jeanie)/Flickr, CC BY-NC-NDThe first release of data from the 2016 Census shows the typical Australian woman spends between five and 14 hours a week doing unpaid domestic housework. For the typical...
Increases in tobacco taxes hurt low-income smokers, who are already stigmatised.from www.shutterstock.comTobacco tax increases in Australia that will see a packet of cigarettes costing A$40 may discourage smoking, but will end up having unintended consequences for poorer smokers, new research shows.
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