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Sculpting your own brain
THE GREAT SPANISH neuroanatomist Santiago Ramón y Cajal believed that with personal commitment and willpower we can do almost...
I want to be editor of the chimpanzee register
You know, chimps?They sure as Christ know youThat genus with answersThey've scoped you for yearsYes, you. For millenniaChimps with...
The drought breaks, July 2010
Again clouds balloon across the sky,Restoration ladies lifting swelled skirtsto piss in casual passingon the mud-running gutter of creeks.Daisies...
Promise of miracles in the age of uncertainty
Planets full of bronzed healthy clean-limbed individuals merrily prancing through their lives meant that the only doctors still in business...
The raft
IF ASKED THEN why I had not returned to London I could have – would have – given several...
From what I hear
BUT WHAT IF the cops see us?But what if you run out of money?But what if you miss your...
Making Perfect Bodies
THE IDEA OF the perfect body may be the ultimate conceit of our age or the final victory of...
At the gateway of hope
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are advised that the following piece contains the names and voices of people who...
Death and distraction
Selected for The Best Australian Essays 2011HER SUBJECT IS distraction. She's written a book about it, published by one...
Rebuilding the Stratocaster
'In my music, I'm trying to play the truth of what I am. The reason it's difficult is because I'm...
Tunnel vision of the soul
IN MIDWINTER JULIA shuffled into my office and slowly lowered herself into the chair beside my desk. It was...
Language wars
WHEN MY SON told me he was going to Beijing to study Mandarin after graduating, he also said, with...
