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04/02/2019 Gerard Stevenson

Day 2: Living and thriving in the fog

John Keats, the poet, lived in the land of the pea-souper. He knew a thing or two about getting around

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03/02/2019 Gerard Stevenson

Day 1 Abraham Maslow

Imagine this. You are dropped in the ocean 1000 miles from land. What will you do? Sink or swim? Abraham

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29/09/2018 Gerard Stevenson

Going from survive to thrive

Here is a story about to be published in the Warrandyte Diary – our local community newspaper.   Local Warrandyte

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21/09/2018 Gerard Stevenson

You can do it, Charlie Brown

In 1950 Charles Schultz, invented the Peanuts characters – Charlie Brown, Lucy, Linus, Snoopy and company. But Charlie Brown was

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17/09/2018 Gerard Stevenson

If it’s going to be…

  Sydney, in the early 1840s, was still very much a convict town and hardly a hotbed of feminism. Caroline

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23/08/2018 Gerard Stevenson

“The battery that never ends” and so much more

I never heard anything about this on the main media channels in Australia. Yet, it is an extraordinary claim by

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23/07/2018 Gerard Stevenson

Pain management

In this episode you will learn more about why pain occurs after spinal cord injury and why this pain is

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23/06/2018 Gerard Stevenson

Astonishing research

Monash University is conducting astonishing research, watching zebrafish repairing their spinal cords in real-time. Here’s the link. Https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-06-stem-cells-spinal-cord-real.html

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16/06/2018 Gerard Stevenson

Count the apples

Next time you eat an apple count how many pips there are. That’s not hard. You will get a definite answer –

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06/06/2018 Gerard Stevenson

Freedom on Wheels

Be Inspired not only by this piece of machinery, but also by the man behind the machine https://www.freedomwheelchairs.com.au/  

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