Immortality and use-by dates, both of which have issues
/Since use-by dates became ubiquitous in the 1980s, there have been only two kinds of people in the world, those who follow them slavishly, and those who ignore them.
Read MoreFamily docs put the care in healthcare
/My son trusts Dr Tig and I’m glad he does, because he will surely need someone to talk to in the future who isn’t his mother or father or a friend. He will need a healthcare professional, and I’m glad it will be a healthcare professional who understands that the word care is in there for a reason.
Read MoreDo collision sports have to include violence?
/I was keen to watch ice hockey in Canada, which I imagined would be beautiful and graceful, like Torville and Dean with a puck, nothing like some of the football codes in Australia with their love of violence. And ice hockey is graceful, I discovered, but it is also unbelievably violent.
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