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Chris Harrison

Chris Harrison

Chris Harrison is content director at The Sydney Morning Herald.

When AI called my friend a murderer it solved my daughter’s career choice

Nerdy execs who skipped the history class on humanism are rolling out this robot we’ll be told we need until we can’t live without it.

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If you can call me bald, I can call you fat

In a PC society increasingly attuned to inclusion, representation and respect, it’s ironic how baldness remains ripe for ridicule.

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I went to Puglia and photographed every meal – including the horsemeat

Before moving to Italy, I ate to live. After moving to Italy, I live to eat.

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Inside the van sloshed 20 litres of champion. It was my job to clean it up

Some hopeful horse breeder had used a refrigerated canister to import the makings of a thoroughly good thoroughbred, but the canister had broken.

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Why it’s not OK you forgot the calendar’s best day

I had hoped you’d notice. The stage was set. But you missed it.

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My New Year’s resolution is unbreakable

Research shows that many people break their resolutions before their New Year’s Eve party hangovers have abated. Not me.

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It’s great that kids will learn grammar again! Now to like, literally, fix other bad habits

I’m constantly correcting my children’s grammar, and they constantly don’t give a toss. I’m delighted their school will now be backing me up.

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An artist’s impression of a cigarette branded with a ‘smoking kills’ warning, as proposed by the Health Minister Mark Butler.

Surely it’s time to give smokers a (ciggy) break

How long before the bottle or glasses we are drinking from carry a health warning?

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Airbnb is building an open-source technology solution to manage the “mountain of complexities” that digital nomad employees face.

The dos and dont’s of winning Powerball

As a kid I was taught that money can’t buy happiness. Then I became an adult and realised it sure as hell helps.

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Why I let my kids drink wine

Most of the science disagrees with me. Some of it supports the approach. I prefer to rely on the 10 years I spent in Italy, when I never drank less and never learnt more about alcohol’s role in a healthy life.

  • Chris Harrison