Doom scrolling vs Good News Week

Today we’ll be talking about ‘doom scrolling’ and our addiction to negative news, even though we know how bad it is for the psyche. Despite complaining about the doom and gloom fed to us through the media, we can’t quite get enough of it. Psychological studies have shown that people’s brains have a bias towards negative or sensational news. So even today, in the time of CovidNSW – The Rising, we leap upon the latest…

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Take five and all that jazz

Warwick’s annual Jumpers and Jazz festival took me back to a day at the dentist in Maleny. I was lying prone, mouth jammed with all sorts of stuff. Soft, melodic saxophone music drifted down from the ceiling (with the poster of the Blue Mountains). “Than Gltz?” I garbled. Roger removed the suction hose “What’s that now?” “Is that Stan Getz?” “No, but good guess,” he said, replacing the suction hose. “What’s your best guess?” “Chrli…

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