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There is a scene in "Beautiful Girls" where a small-town feminist (Rosie O'Donnell) grabs a copy of Penthouse from a magazine stand and uses it as a prop while lecturing some of her sheepish male friends on the realities of womanhood. It is not common, she points out, for women to have small hips and large breasts. "Small hips - small breasts. Big breasts - big hips," she explains. By holding onto an unrealistic image of the dream girl they might somehow, someday, be able to meet, the guys are denying themselves a good relationship with a real flesh-and blood woman righ...

The pandemic has been a clear demonstration that science is a method, not an endpoint. It is an ongoing process of hypothesising, testing, and interpreting the results of those tests through public policy. Though the hypothesis may be accepted or rejected, these interpretations are unlikely to be absolutely definitive statements or recommendations and are usually made with varying degrees of certainty. By Tim Hutton

What's the point of schooling? real life?’ The reason we hate this question is, of course, that we teach many things in school that do not have a practical purpose for most people. You don’t analyse the themes of Macbeth or learn calculus because you’re necessarily going to use them when you leave school. You learn these things because someone, somewhere, has decided that education has an inherent value, and that learning these things will enrich your life. Whether they do enrich your life, well, is a different question. (I do quote Shakespeare almost daily, but I acknowledge I’m pr...

MasterChef recap: Jock breaks a heart with his sneaky tart challenge Ben Pobjie Photo: Supplied Tonight's pressure test sees last night's losing team fighting each other to avoid elimination. But wait…it's cruel to call them the 'losing team'. MasterChef isn't about that sort of negativity. Instead, let's just call them "the team that let themselves and everyone who loves them down". So, the members of that team gather to attempt to shake off the glum rainhat of failure and don the nifty fedora of relief. Maja assumes the old 'squat in front of the oven and hope for the best' position. ...

Published April 21, 2021 To sign up for our daily newsletter filled with the latest news, goss and other stuff you should care about, head HERE. For a running feed of all our stories, follow us on Twitter HERE. Or, bookmark the PEDESTRIAN.TV homepage to visit whenever you need a news fix. It’s only episode three of  MasterChef and far out, the contestants are plating up some top-tier stuff. It’s just a pity some of them don’t have the confidence to match. This episode’s challenge was a mystery box curated by reigning  MasterChef champ  Emelia. It was a weird assortment of ingredien...