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Stuff.co.nz News Child-sex offender register gets OK http://t.co/GbrV0ZV6LU https://twitter.com/NZStuff/status/495983204440866817 05:23 – 4 Aug 14 Bryan operations@betterblokes.org.nz Sent from my Windows Phone The Government is pushing ahead with a child-sex offender register, which could eventually be expanded to include other sexual offenders. Police and Corrections Minister Anne Tolley has confirmed ministersContinue Reading

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Social workers should be paid and trained like doctors By Lena Dominelli, Durham University Social workers deal with messy, complex and ambiguous situations where off-the-peg solutions are often irrelevant. Take a mother who wants to feed a hungry baby, but her fridge is empty because she can’t afford milk. HowContinue Reading

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http://www.ted.com/talks/david_chalmers_how_do_you_explain_consciousness/citations 00:12 “Right now, you have a movie playing inside your head.” Okay, consciousness isn’t exactly like a movie. There isn’t a little screen in your head with someone watching it, as in Being John Malkovich. It’s more like a virtual reality. Or rather, virtual reality is like consciousness: TheContinue Reading

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Scientists trialled a new vaccine to treat #Parkinson’s. And the results are very promising http://t.co/pBxd8iSIwp pic.twitter.com/UpMbBpo23t — The Conversation (@ConversationUK) August 1, 2014 http://parkinson.org/Patients/Patients—On-The-Blog/September-2012/What-about-the-new-Parkinsons-Disease-Vaccine–Wh Parkinson’s disease is a neurodegenerative condition associated with deposition of a brain protein known as alpha-synuclein. This protein clumps and seems to spread throughout the brainContinue Reading