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When you stub your toe, or bang your thumb with a hammer, you might want to utter a few choice swear words.
There is new research from the Swear Lab at Keele University in the UK that suggests it might actually help with your pain threshold.
Olly Robertson is the lead researcher at the Swear Lab and also a psychology researcher at Oxford University. She s also a big fan of swearing and she spoke to Geoff Hutchison on Drive.
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How the Di Chiera family brought continental food to Perth, changing the local menu forever
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Antonio Di Chiera in 1955 at the original Northbridge store.
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When scores of Italian migrants arrived in Perth after World War II, they soon began to look for the food they ate back home, eventually introducing hitherto unknown fare to a whole city.
One of those stores was founded by the Di Chiera brothers, who emigrated from Naples and opened their first grocery store in 1953.
Antonio Di Chiera came to Perth as a young man in 1949, and was followed a few months later by his brother Giuseppe.
Running on empty: last days on the campaign trail with Zak Kirkup
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March 11, 2021
Opposition Leader Zak Kirkup reacts to questions from the media about offensive comments he is alleged to have made in 2005 when he was 18.
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Whenever Opposition Leader Zak Kirkup has trouble on his mind he laces up his joggers and goes for a run.
A Spotify playlist blasts Cardi B and the scenery melts around him as he leaves behind the worries of the day, getting into a rhythm and pounding the pavement until the point of exhaustion.
How dark world of baby farming was exposed in sensational trial that brought lasting change
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The case led to a shake-up of public health care and child protection. Above, a nurse with babies in the Perth Public Hospital, 1919.
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For several weeks in 1907, the Australian public was gripped by a sensational trial in Perth that exposed the dark practice of baby farming.
While it was a trial over the death of one infant, proceedings revealed that 37 babies had died in the care of one woman, Alice Mitchell, over a six-year period, leading to headlines suggesting she might be Australia s worst serial killer.
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