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Cooling-off periods for consumers don't work: study

  • Written by: Paul Harrison, Senior lecturer, Deakin Business School; Director, Centre for Organisational Health and Consumer Wellbeing, Deakin University
image"Cooling-off" periods for purchases made in high-pressure selling situations like door-to-door sales don't help consumers, research shows. image from shutterstock.com

When customers are offered a “cooling off” period, they don’t change their minds, even when the alternative is considered subjectively better, our research finds. We...

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No politician can singlehandedly bring back coal – not even Donald Trump

  • Written by: Peter Newman, Professor of Sustainability, Curtin University
imageVirginia coalminers in the industry's 1970s heyday.Jack Corn/EPA/US Natl Archives & Records Administration/Wikimedia Commons

On the night Donald Trump won the US election, one of the many jubilant supporters featured in the media coverage was 67-year-old Doug Ratliff of Richlands, Virginia. An owner of struggling shopping malls in a region hit...

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Why coal-fired power stations need to shut on health grounds

  • Written by: David Shearman, Emeritus Professor of Medicine, University of Adelaide

The Senate inquiry’s report into the planned closure of coal-fired power stations will no doubt shed light on the compelling health reasons to close them.

Coal-fired stations are a health hazard to their local communities and beyond due to the pollutants they emit. The resulting illnesses are a significant cost to health budgets. Climate...

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Health Check: why men wake up with erections

  • Written by: Sergio Diez Alvarez, Director Of Medicine, The Maitland and Kurri Kurri Hospital, University of Newcastle
imageMany men are not actually aroused when they wake up erect. from www.shutterstock.com.au

The morning penile erection, or as it is medically known, “nocturnal penile tumescence”, is not only an interesting physiological phenomenon, it can also tell us a lot about a patient’s sexual function.

Morning penile erections affect all males,...

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