Los Desaparecidos: Mothers of the Disappeared
Argentina’s “Dirty War”, a campaign between the late 1970s and early ’80s, lasted eight years. The perpetrators’ goal was to rid the country of...
HOW TO DEVELOP YOUR CREATIVITY EVERY DAY
To survive in a fast-changing world you need to be creative,” says Gerard J Puccio, chairman of the International Center for Studies in Creativity...
Battle of the Wedgetails
I love a good flyover. I live under a flight path where planes bank around to line up for their approach to Sydney Airport....
CHATBOT, YOUR LIMITLESS FRIEND
Imagine your life helped by an all-knowing, tireless, personalised assistant and, more so, one that is free. Let’s say it comes in a chat...
Passive vaping—time we see it like secondhand smoke and stand up...
A medical student of mine recently said he loved the smell of vanilla in the house he shared with friends who vaped. “That’s OK,...
Losing Jemima
One in four pregnancies will end in loss during pregnancy or birth.1 The faces of miscarriage and stillbirth are all around us and I can...
What happens in our brain and body when we’re in love?
Love dominates our popular culture and is the subject of countless songs, movies, and works of literature and art. But what’s happening in our...
Ride for a Reason
Michael Worker took up cycling in 2020 during the first Covid-19 lockdown in Victoria. Frustrated at being cooped up in his house all the...
Gratitude your way into the New Year
There is no time like the end of the year that stirs our interest in self-improvement. Many of us are thinking of the new...
The First Christmas Gift-Giver
In writing this article, I asked a handful of people what the worst thing they had ever received for Christmas was. The answers I...
What COVID has taught us about sharing our emotions—and why now’s...
Although they were only two-and-a-half years ago, the first months of the COVID pandemic and ensuing lockdowns seem like a distant past. We have – perhaps intentionally...
Hamstrung by belief
Holding to your convictions becomes harder in difficult circumstances. But many sports stars have to walk that line.