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Hospitals feel the heat too from extreme weather and its health impacts

  • Written by: Martin Loosemore, Professor, Construction Management Program, Built Environment, UNSW Australia

As southeastern Australia swelters through another heatwave, how well equipped are our hospitals to cope with severe weather events?

Hospitals lie at the heart of our ability to manage the significant potential health impacts of extreme weather events. Many people would be surprised to hear that the vast majority of our hospitals have not been desi...

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Bright Lights – a TV farewell to Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds

  • Written by: Liz Giuffre, Lecturer in Communication, University of Technology Sydney
imageDebbie Reynolds poses with her daughter Carrie Fisher backstage after accepting her Lifetime Achievement award at the 2015 Screen Actors Guild Awards. REUTERS/Mike Blake

After the deaths of Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher in the last days of 2016, the release of a new documentary about their lives, Bright Lights, feels serendipitous.

Already...

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School dress 'debate' is a nonsense: just have a range of options, and let students choose

  • Written by: Lauren Rosewarne, Senior Lecturer, University of Melbourne
imageDon't like dresses or skirts for schoolgirls? Then let them wear pants.AAP/Dan Peled

For Australians growing up on a diet of American film and TV, seeing their parade of chic and shocking school outfits can only ever bristle. Here, uniform is king; over yonder it’s been a rarity since the 1960s.

In recent days a debate has been reignited about...

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Children learn empathy growing up, but can we train adults to have more of it?

  • Written by: John Malouff, Associate Professor, School of Behavioural, Cognitive and Social Sciences, University of New England
imageResearchers have examined whether it is possible to increase empathy through formal training.from shutterstock.com

This article is part of our series on understanding others’ feelings. In it we examine empathy, including what it is, whether our doctors need more of it, and when too much may not be a good thing.

“I just get so angry when...

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  4. Why are most people right handed? The answer may be in the mouths of our ancestors
  5. Book Review: Trillion Dollar Baby
  6. How virtual reality technology is changing the way students learn
  7. 10 years on, the iPhone has revolutionised life and freed us from multiple tyrannies
  8. Are the ingredients in Peppa Pig sunscreen safe?
  9. Stamping out political rorts requires a cultural change, not more bodies to police it
  10. What's behind Timor-Leste terminating its maritime treaty with Australia
  11. A 'tougher' citizenship test should not be used to further divide and exclude
  12. Five ways kids can benefit from being outside this summer break
  13. One year on, we should remember David Bowie as both genius and flawed human
  14. Why Centrelink should adopt a light touch when data matching
  15. Wheat, sheep or Elvis Presley? Rural Australia has had to change its tune
  16. Can Facebook help you make your home more sustainable?
  17. Do art and literature cultivate empathy?
  18. Sussan Ley and the Gold Coast apartment: murky rules mean age of entitlement isn't over for MPs
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  20. The off-topic Conversation #115
  21. Why and how do we measure what consumers feel?
  22. Understanding others' feelings: what is empathy and why do we need it?
  23. Five political leaders to watch in 2017
  24. Why do we still make girls wear skirts and dresses as school uniform?
  25. Lion is a well-made melodrama with a rather disturbing message
  26. Make a fresh start with your fridge in 2017: apps to reduce food waste and save money
  27. Food for thought: the rise of Australia's mighty Brahman
  28. Australia’s climate in 2016 – a year of two halves as El Niño unwound
  29. Explainer: we can learn a lot from the changing night sky
  30. Birdbath, food or water? How to attract your favourite birds to your garden
  31. In a world awash with data, is the census still relevant?
  32. The lure of cycling: tips from a middle-aged man in Lycra
  33. The archaeology of polite society
  34. Who will be the winner in the next computing revolution?
  35. Housing the dead: what happens when a city runs out of space?
  36. Two cheers for Barack Obama
  37. The world is getting fatter with technology as part of the problem and not the cure
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  39. Kitchen ink: foodies, chefs and tattoos
  40. Prepare for a healthy holiday with this A-to-E guide
  41. How to quickly spot dodgy science
  42. How and why we are moving beyond GDP as a measure of human progress
  43. Why bad housing design pumps up power prices for everyone
  44. Ten reasons some of us should cut back on alcohol
  45. Cinema opens a dialogue about coming to terms with Balkans' past
  46. Why don't people get it? Seven ways that communicating risk can fail
  47. Explainer: why markets care what businesses are buying
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