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Features Updated August 31, 2010

Lamarck’s ‘family’ lives on in the Bay

About two hundred years ago, an impoverished Frenchman also stared at the feathery tentacles and the tough tubes of these marine worms. The French Revolution was throwing his world into chaos. His...

Opinion and Analysis Updated August 31, 2010

Local stars make the most of collagen

By Mary Gardner

The seastar belongs to a group of some six thousand species called echinoderms. These include sea urchins, brittle stars, sea feathers and sea cucumbers. We struggle with these names, which hint of.....

Leeks and Elephants

By Victoria Cosford

There was an episode during the recent bout of MasterChef wherein one of the contestants ran a leek under the tap, shook off the excess water and reclined it on his chopping-board. Horrified, I.....

Three Amigos keep the public guessing

By Mungo MacCallum

The public has learned more about politics in the last week of August than they ever did in twelve years of high school.At the weekend Tony Abbott finally faced reality; he sent a message after the.....

Sleep... perchance to dream.

By Mandy Nolan

I haven’t had a full night sleep now since the beginning of 2009. I’ve been a mother for 15 years so I’m used to the whole death-of-self concept. I’ve been dead now for over a.....

Cinema Reviews

By John Campbell

The Most Dangerous Man In AmericaAfter the tapes of his conversations in the Oval Office were made public, Richard Nixon was more concerned about people hearing his bad language than he was about.....

Stars with Liltih

By admin

The second of Mercury’s annual three week retrogrades begins this week, setting critical scissors snipping at delicate egos.  But before trying to change someone else, remember how hard it.....