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Omran Daqneesh: the poster child for cognitive dissonance

  • Written by: Mark Beeson, Professor of International Politics, University of Western Australia

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Perhaps so, but let me add another 800 or so on the image above, which has cut through the media deluge like no other of late.

The fact that we know the name of five-year-old Omran Daqneesh is a minor miracle given that nearly half a million have gone anonymously and unremarked to their graves in Syria....

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The Panopticons are coming! And they'll know when we think the grass is greener

  • Written by: Jodi Sita, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Health Sciences, Australian Catholic University

Does a walk in the park during your lunch break make you feel relaxed? Does lush greenery or a glint of sunlight on running water catch your eye and allow you to stare and rest your brain?

We recently turned our attention to these questions when we asked park users in the City of Melbourne to view films of walks.

We used eye tracking – a...

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Genes are not destiny: environment and education still matter when it comes to intelligence

  • Written by: Kate Lynch, Postdoctoral research fellow, Macquarie University
imageIntelligence is about more than just biology.Shutterstock

Recent research has suggested that academic performance, reading ability and IQ have a genetic basis. This reinforces the popular notion that intelligence and related cognitive capacities are somehow “in our genes”.

This has led some people to reject the importance of educational...

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A fortune built on slavery: the Bright Family Papers and their journey from UK to Melbourne

  • Written by: Millicent Weber, Assistant Archivist, University of Melbourne
imageA memorial to slavery in the British city of Liverpool.Thom/flickr

In 1818, the young, wealthy, and fashionable British parliamentarian Richard William Meyler suffered a stroke while fox hunting. Meyler died intestate, and as a result, his extensive family estates in England and Jamaica were inherited by his closest male relative: his second cousin...

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