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Today's fact Aristotle wrote Meteorologica in 350 BC and it became the standard weather text for 2000 years.

Playing The Blame Game - A Look At Responsibility

ARISTOTLE says we are all responsible for our actions and that this allows others to praise, blame or punish us.

Ok, Face It, The Kids Are All Right On What's Not

THE author of Bumface, Aristotle's Nostril and Misery Guts put himself at the mercy of his discerning readers in Newcastle yesterday.

Literary Coup For Library

WHAT do Aristotle's Nostril, Once, Boy Underground and Misery Guts all have in common?

Favourite By A Long Nose

BOOK REVIEW: Aristotle's Nostril By Morris Gleitzman Puffin, $14.95

Building Your Library

BOOK REVIEWS: The Last Days of Socrates By Plato; The Republic By Plato; The Art and Thought of Heraclitus; Ethics By Aristotle; Essential Epicurus

See What We Do, See Our Values

IN among all the pious talk about values - Australian values, personal values, spiritual values - it might be worth reminding ourselves that there's really only one way to work out what your values are: look at how you behave. "We are," in Aristotle's famous phrase, "what we repeatedly do."

Soul Music And The Limbo Rot

MOSES couldn't believe his eyes. Plato was skipping down the hallowed halls of Limbo. Not only was he skipping, he was grinning, giggling and high-fiving everyone he passed: Abraham, Socrates, Aristotle - even Horace, although those two had never really hit it off.

Knowing When To End - An Ability Even Aristotle Lacked

MUSIC REVIEW: SIXTH CLASSICALLY MELBOURNE FREE CONCERT Hamer Hall, July 14

She's Seen It All

PENNY Coulter has been involved with the IT industry for 24 years. In that time, Coulter, president of the IT Contract and Recruitment Association and director of IT recruiter Aristotle Corporation, has seen all there is to see in the IT business.

Australia, Nz Team Up To Crack Whale Mystery

SOME believe seismic testing for oil and gas is to blame for the mass stranding of whales on beaches but others claim there is evidence it occurred as far back as 350BC and was recorded by Aristotle.

Think Inside The Box

He's a glutton and he tells lies. He has no benevolence, no justice, no generosity. He has buddies but no friends, and his marital and parenting skills leave much to be desired. According to Aristotelian principles, if he fares so badly on the moral front, in what way is Homer Simpson admirable? "Homer and Aristotle", an essay by Raja Halwani in The Simpsons and Philosophy: The D'Oh! of Homer, is a classic example of our age's propensity to get serious about trivia.

Scandal

Nemesis: The True Story Of Aristotle Onassis, Jackie O And The Love Triangle That Brought Down The Kennedys Peter Evans (ReganBooks $39.95)

Resmed Chief Frank With Luncheoners In `botswana'

ResMed chief executive Peter Farrell injected some colour into the normally restrained Securities Institute luncheon yesterday as he loudly imitated a snorer having a heart attack, pulled out quotes from Aristotle and repeatedly called Australia ``Botswana".

Resmed Says Wake Up Australia

ResMed chief executive Peter Farrell injected some colour into a normally restrained Securities Institute lunch yesterday, loudly imitating a snorer having a heart attack, quoting Aristotle and constantly referring to Australia as ``Botswana".

Well, He Didn't Want A Ship

THE gift that Greek shipping heiress Athina Roussel, 18, chose for her Brazilian boyfriend might not match the elegance of the flawless gems her grandfather Aristotle Onassis poured on Jacqueline Kennedy.

Origin Ii Presents The Praised, The Persecuted, The Steward And The Sledgehammer

Aristotle could not have been thinking about rugby league when he wrote: ``No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness."

Gecko's Sticky Secret Is A Hairy One

Is it only geckos that hang on to surfaces with their hairs? No, skinks and some insects use a similar trick, but geckos are the best at it. PEOPLE have long pondered how geckos climb sheer walls - even Greek philosopher Aristotle wondered about it in the fourth century BC.

A Philosophical Approach To Therapy For The Sane

With a little help from Aristotle and Socrates, an unconventional method of counselling is challenging the traditional psychiatrist's couch, writes Peter Ellingsen.