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Not just nice to have: nature in the workplace makes employees happier and healthier

  • Written by: Libby Sander, Lecturer, Bond Business School, Bond University
imageJust seeing plants can have a huge impact on your mood.Shutterstock

Bringing nature into the workplace can help reduce stress and increase creativity and focus, research shows.

Some researchers suggest humans have an innate need to be connected with nature. This is called biophilia. But as housing density, commute times, and office hours increase,...

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Face Value: business leaders are betting we will spend more

  • Written by: Ross Guest, Professor of Economics and National Senior Teaching Fellow, Griffith University

When Australian companies report results they typically include an outlook statement from the business’ leaders, giving investors some guidance about their expectations for the future. They issue these forward-looking statements with some caution as investors might rely on them, and the law requires that they be based on “reasonable...

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Vital Signs: living in the past won't distract from our current economic woes

  • Written by: Richard Holden, Professor of Economics and PLuS Alliance Fellow, UNSW
imageAustralian Treasurer Scott Morrison likes to remind us of the economic achievements of the past.Paul Miller/AAP, CC BY-ND

Vital Signs is a weekly economic wrap from UNSW economics professor and Harvard PhD Richard Holden (@profholden). Vital Signs aims to contextualise weekly economic events and cut through the noise of the data affecting global...

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How I came to know that I am a closet climate denier

  • Written by: Joy Murray, Senior Research Fellow in Integrated Sustainability Analysis, School of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Sydney
imageSo large are the nation's daily greenhouse gas emissions that if yours is a typical Australian lifestyle you're contributing disproportionately to climate change.Carbon Visuals/flickr, CC BY

This article is part of an ongoing series from the Post-Truth Initiative, a Strategic Research Excellence Initiative at the University of Sydney. The series...

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  1. New research unlocks the mystery of leaf size
  2. Almost half of trans young people try to end their lives. How can we reduce this alarming statistic?
  3. Friday essay: The personal is now commercial – popular feminism online
  4. Racism is real, race is not: a philosopher's perspective
  5. Sex and the City, Santiago style, where they're serving up 'coffee with legs'
  6. There is no apprenticeships 'crisis' in Australia
  7. Grattan on Friday: If defeat comes, what then for the Liberals' succession?
  8. Don't expect the Grameen Bank's microfinance model to pay off for Australians
  9. Guam’s forests are being slowly killed off – by a snake
  10. Truth to power: how podcasts are getting political
  11. Doctors, lawyers and ministers all take a professional pledge: here's why teachers should too
  12. Why Google wants to think more like you and less like a machine
  13. Weekly Dose: Gardasil 9, the vaccine that could soon protect against cervical cancer in fewer doses
  14. Spirituality gone awry in India: what is Dera Sacha Sauda, and who is its jailed leader?
  15. Revealed: who supports marriage equality in Australia – and who doesn't
  16. Lasers and dung beetles: the 2017 Eureka Prizes celebrate the best of Australian science
  17. We tracked how investors read company reports and here's how they're misled
  18. The mystery of the La Pérouse expedition survivors: wrecked in Torres Strait?
  19. Explainer: what is chronic kidney disease and why are one in three at risk of this silent killer?
  20. Marriage survey: two-thirds of new voters are aged 18-24
  21. Three questions to ask about calls to widen breast cancer screening
  22. Turnbull is pursuing 'energy certainty' but what does that actually mean?
  23. New study finding fat isn't as bad as carbs misses the point
  24. Forget heatwaves, our cold houses are much more likely to kill us
  25. A Byzantine ancestor to same-sex marriage?
  26. Explainer: what is antifa, and where did it come from?
  27. Change Agents: Darren Kindleysides and Don Rothwell on how Australia briefly stopped Japanese whaling
  28. The Australian Greens at 25: fighting the same battles but still no breakthrough
  29. Ancient whales had more bite than today's gentle giants
  30. Of mice and men: why animal trial results don’t always translate to humans
  31. Hypocrisy reigns on both sides of the same-sex marriage debate
  32. Why retailers want you to 'click and collect'
  33. Can our cities' thriving creative precincts be saved from ‘renewal’?
  34. Devastating Himalayan floods are made worse by an international blame game
  35. Beyond Atomic Blonde: cinema's long, proud history of violent women
  36. Crystals like you've never seen them before: they're flexible
  37. Curious Kids: Why are rainbows round?
  38. The UK is rethinking university degrees and Australia should too
  39. Things to consider when making the switch to the NBN and what to expect
  40. Explainer: what is Seroquel and should you take it for insomnia?
  41. Is the tide turning for Australian sci-fi on the small screen?
  42. Artificial intelligence researchers must learn ethics
  43. Doping among amateur athletes like CrossFitters is probably more common than you'd think
  44. The impact of CBS's takeover of Ten is much larger than just one network
  45. As it launches another missile, we must realise there are no easy options for dealing with North Korea
  46. APRA inquiry into CBA is the new comedy in town
  47. How to make robots that we can trust
  48. How governments have widened the gap between generations in home ownership
  49. Women paid less for same contribution to work, and sexism is to blame - study
  50. 'Build to rent' could be the missing piece of the affordable housing puzzle

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