What do a wealthy Melbourne aristocrat, the adult child of a career criminal and a sheriff detective dealing in the supernatural have in common? They’re some of the newest protagonists leading the charge in television’s latest wave of hit crime dramas – a posse of plucky women signalling a renaissance in a genre that’s slowly…
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Emily Graslie, the creative mind behind popular YouTube science channel The Brain Scoop, has spoken out against the daily barricade of sexist comments she receives in a video in which she asks why there are so few popular female STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) creators on YouTube. In the video, which has done the…
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High expectations are dangerous. Too often it means something you’d been looking forward to, or stood in the line for hours (and paid a small fortune) for, falls hopelessly short. Thankfully the same cannot be said for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and its famous heroine Katniss Everdeen – the series has already called out…
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November is many things to many people: an opportunity to sport a fetching mo for Movember, the start of a luxuriously extensive three months vacation, or the chance to ease into your no-department store summer cleanse (Myer plays Mariah Carey’s Merry Christmas album on repeat so this one is a cinch.) But for Whovian fans…
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