"Is it true that drowning could be pleasurable? It seems not. Drowning is in fact a terrifying and life-threatening experience," writes Whimsy columnist CLIVE WILLIAMS.
Clive Williams
Clive Williams is a Canberra columnist.
Whimsy columnist CLIVE WILLIAMS jumps in the deep end with a look at swimming, wherever it occurs, and his impending ambition to swim six kilometres across the Bosphorus Strait.
"Body temperature regulation is primarily controlled by the hypothalamus, a region of the brain that acts as the body’s thermostat." Whimsy columnist CLIVE WILLIAMS wonders if hot-blooded people really are.
"Canberrans lucky enough to have a garden will have an abundance of dinosaurs visiting." How is that possible? Whimsy columnist CLIVE WILLIAMS explains all.
Whimsy columnist CLIVE WILLIAMS got predictable responses when he researched an article on what gave people pleasure, so he changed his question and asked what people found annoying. Here they come again…
Whimsy columnist CLIVE WILLIAMS got predictable responses when he researched an article on what gave people pleasure, so he changed his question and asked what people found annoying. Then things got interesting...
Whimsy columnist CLIVE WILLIAMS devotes his column to digital living – the art of being constantly connected, yet somehow never truly there.
Why do we dream – and why do we dream what we dream? Why does time seem to fly during happy moments and drag during tedious ones? CLIVE WILLIAMS devotes his Whimsy column to pondering the imponderable.
"Rural India is rather confronting from a modern perspective, with women doing most of the manual labour while the men drive tractors or idle their time gossiping in the shade." CLIVE WILLIAMS takes the motorcycle ride of his life.
"The cemetery was surrounded by a high, spiked metal fence. I eventually managed to climb out – hastened by groaning sounds from dark areas within the cemetery!," writes Whimsy columnist CLIVE WILLIAMS.
"Have smartphones spelt the death of the camera? Actually, no. I've just bought the latest Sony RX10M4 which has capabilities way beyond those of a smartphone camera," writes Whimsy columnist CLIVE WILLIAMS.
"Achieving a long and healthy life involves mitigating various risk factors that can accelerate the ageing process or lead to premature mortality," writes CLIVE WILLIAMS.
![For graphic designer Tracy Hall, street art is like any artwork, her canvas has been swapped out for fences and plywood, her medium changing from watercolours to spray paint.
A Canberra resident for 13 years, Tracy has been a street and mural artist for the past five.
Her first exploration into grand-scale painting was at the Point Hut toilets in Banks five years ago. “They had just finished doing up the playground area for all the little kids and the words [of graffiti] that were coming up weren’t family friendly,” she says.
“So I ended up drawing this design and I got approval for the artwork.”
Many of Tracy’s time-consuming artworks are free, with thousands of her own dollars put into paint.
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