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People with creative personalities really do see the world differently

  • Written by: Luke Smillie, Senior Lecturer in Personality Psychology, University of Melbourne
imageHow do you see the world?pixabay.com

What is it about a creative work such as a painting or piece of music that elicits our awe and admiration? Is it the thrill of being shown something new, something different, something the artist saw that we did not?

As Pablo Picasso put it:

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and...

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Why you're almost certainly wasting time rinsing your recycling

  • Written by: Trevor Thornton, Lecturer, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University
imageYour recycling doesn't have to be sparkling clean.Monticello/Shutterstock.com

Once a fortnight we diligently wheel our recycling bin to the kerb, and then probably give ourselves a pat on the back while thinking of all the useful products we have helped to create, and the resources and energy we have saved.

Yet it pays to think a bit more deeply...

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Uluru call for constitutional First Nations Voice presents new challenge for Referendum Council

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
imageDancers from Thursday Island in the Torres Strait perform at the opening ceremony of the National Indigenous Constitutional Convention, where 250 Aboriginal leaders from across the country called for the ''establishment of a First Nations Voice enshrined in the constitution'' and a treaty-making process.Lucy Hughes Jones/AAP

If earlier timetables...

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The ABC is not siphoning audiences from Fairfax

  • Written by: Axel Bruns, Professor, Creative Industries, Queensland University of Technology
imageClaims that ABC News siphons readers away from Fairfax publications are unfounded. AAP Image/Joel Carrett

Fairfax CEO Greg Hywood has been busy. His company’s announcement on 3 May 2017 that Fairfax would sack 125 of its newsroom staff led to Sydney Morning Herald and The Age journalists going on strike, at the worst possible time in the...

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