Tom Harding, aka Tom the Pom, is a musician with a tremendous passion for his art. Having travelled the world for the past few years, playing and teaching the Brazilian percussion style of samba, he has now settled in the Eastern Suburbs and is hoping to bolster the local samba scene.
The award-winning musician runs percussion […]
For years now, veterinarians have been giving prozac to pets. But there is concern. Anti-depressents may not be a good idea for dogs.
Vince is a calm, well adjusted greyhound who used to be very hyper and agitated easily because he was always fearful of everything, especially the family’s cat.
“Vince was being aggressive when he’d see […]
Recently quite a few stories have appeared in the media touting new explanations for such diverse things as altruism, generosity, and music. These complex matters, we are told, can be traced to the brain, which is dependent upon genes, and genes in turn dependent upon evolutionary biology. Thus one reads articles with headlines like “Are […]
BERLIN - Sharon Stone says she found her role as a depressed and taciturn woman in her latest film strangely uplifting, as it challenged what she called “Prozac society”.
“When a Man Falls in the Forest” is in competition at the Berlin Film Festival, where it was screened on Monday, and brings the Hollywood star […]
ATLANTA – A Georgia man admitted Tuesday that he tampered with his children’s soup in an attempt to get money from the Campbell Soup Co., U.S. Attorney David Nahmias said.
William Allen Cunningham, 41, of Stockbridge pleaded guilty to communicating false claims, Nahmias said.
“He admitted that he put potentially life-threatening foreign substances into soup, which he […]
Birth control pills were a revolutionary advance in contraception back in the 1960s. They were unquestionably more effective and convenient than any other form of contraception.
In theory, only one woman out of 100 who took the pill for a year became pregnant. This seemed like an acceptable failure rate to the Food and Drug Administration […]
A cat has been prescribed a Prozac-style drug because she was “depressed” about being bullied by other moggies.
Twiglet’s weight ballooned to 15lb because she was too scared to leave the house.
When she did venture out, she began biting people on the ankles until they fed her.
Her owner Jackie Martin, 28, from Brighton, had to install […]