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What is hedonism and how does it affect your health?

  • Written by: Desirée Kozlowski, Academic, Psychology, Southern Cross University
imageHedonism isn't all about sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. It can be about savouring the pleasure in a cup of tea at the end of a hard day.from www.shutterstock.com

This is the first article in our three-part series looking at hedonism and health. Today we look at what hedonism is (and is not), how it’s linked to your health, and how you can add...

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This is why we cannot rely on cities alone to tackle climate change

  • Written by: Brendan F.D. Barrett, Senior Lecturer, Program Manager, Masters of International Urban and Environmental Management, RMIT University

A lot of faith is vested in cities to tackle climate change, and with good reason. A day after the June 1 declaration that the US would exit the Paris Agreement, 82 American “climate mayors” committed to upholding the accord.

By August 4, when the US gave formal notice of its withdrawal, there were 372 “climate mayors” repres...

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It's reputation that matters when spin doctors go back to the newsroom

  • Written by: Caroline Fisher, Assistant Professor in Journalism, University of Canberra
imageABC Insiders host Barrie Cassidy was once press secretary to former prime minister Bob Hawke.ABC

When a journalist moves from press secretary to press gallery reporter, it raises tricky ethical questions for news editors in the face of possible concerns about the former political staff member’s independence and partisanship.

For some editors,...

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I have always wondered: why are some fruits poisonous?

  • Written by: Julian MacPherson Brown, Postdoctoral research fellow, Australian National University
imageIt was all the apple's fault: we've been fascinated by poisoned fruit for a long time. Jacob Jordaens (1593–1678), The Fall of Man, via Wikimedia Commons

This is an article from I Have Always Wondered, a new series where readers send in questions they’d like an expert to answer. Send your question to alwayswondered@theconversation.edu.au...


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  1. All that glitters: why our obsession with putting gold on food is nothing new
  2. At last! The world's first ethical guidelines for driverless cars
  3. Curious Kids: Why do stars twinkle?
  4. Anger, aggression and violence: it matters that we know the difference
  5. The new Great Barrier Reef pollution plan is better, but still not good enough
  6. Australia's record-breaking winter warmth linked to climate change
  7. The more years spent in a classroom the lower your risk of heart disease
  8. The off-topic Conversation #134
  9. Not just nice to have: nature in the workplace makes employees happier and healthier
  10. Face Value: business leaders are betting we will spend more
  11. Vital Signs: living in the past won't distract from our current economic woes
  12. How I came to know that I am a closet climate denier
  13. New research unlocks the mystery of leaf size
  14. Almost half of trans young people try to end their lives. How can we reduce this alarming statistic?
  15. Friday essay: The personal is now commercial – popular feminism online
  16. Racism is real, race is not: a philosopher's perspective
  17. Sex and the City, Santiago style, where they're serving up 'coffee with legs'
  18. There is no apprenticeships 'crisis' in Australia
  19. Grattan on Friday: If defeat comes, what then for the Liberals' succession?
  20. Don't expect the Grameen Bank's microfinance model to pay off for Australians
  21. Guam’s forests are being slowly killed off – by a snake
  22. Truth to power: how podcasts are getting political
  23. Doctors, lawyers and ministers all take a professional pledge: here's why teachers should too
  24. Why Google wants to think more like you and less like a machine
  25. Weekly Dose: Gardasil 9, the vaccine that could soon protect against cervical cancer in fewer doses
  26. Spirituality gone awry in India: what is Dera Sacha Sauda, and who is its jailed leader?
  27. Revealed: who supports marriage equality in Australia – and who doesn't
  28. Lasers and dung beetles: the 2017 Eureka Prizes celebrate the best of Australian science
  29. We tracked how investors read company reports and here's how they're misled
  30. The mystery of the La Pérouse expedition survivors: wrecked in Torres Strait?
  31. Explainer: what is chronic kidney disease and why are one in three at risk of this silent killer?
  32. Marriage survey: two-thirds of new voters are aged 18-24
  33. Three questions to ask about calls to widen breast cancer screening
  34. Turnbull is pursuing 'energy certainty' but what does that actually mean?
  35. New study finding fat isn't as bad as carbs misses the point
  36. Forget heatwaves, our cold houses are much more likely to kill us
  37. A Byzantine ancestor to same-sex marriage?
  38. Explainer: what is antifa, and where did it come from?
  39. Change Agents: Darren Kindleysides and Don Rothwell on how Australia briefly stopped Japanese whaling
  40. The Australian Greens at 25: fighting the same battles but still no breakthrough
  41. Ancient whales had more bite than today's gentle giants
  42. Of mice and men: why animal trial results don’t always translate to humans
  43. Hypocrisy reigns on both sides of the same-sex marriage debate
  44. Why retailers want you to 'click and collect'
  45. Can our cities' thriving creative precincts be saved from ‘renewal’?
  46. Devastating Himalayan floods are made worse by an international blame game
  47. Beyond Atomic Blonde: cinema's long, proud history of violent women
  48. Crystals like you've never seen them before: they're flexible
  49. Curious Kids: Why are rainbows round?
  50. The UK is rethinking university degrees and Australia should too

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