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Does microdosing improve your mood and performance? Here's what the research says

  • Written by: Vince Polito, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Cognitive Science, Macquarie University
Does microdosing improve your mood and performance? Here's what the research saysMicrodosers take such small quantities of psychedelic substances that there are no noticeable effects.By AppleZoomZoom

Microdosing means regularly taking very small doses of psychedelic substances such as LSD or psilocybin (magic mushrooms) over a period of weeks or months. The practice has made countless headlines over the past couple of years,...

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One in six Australian women in their 30s have had an abortion – and we're starting to understand why

  • Written by: Jayne Lucke, Chair, Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health & Society, La Trobe University
One in six Australian women in their 30s have had an abortion – and we're starting to understand whyWomen aged in their 20s are more likely to have an abortion than women in their 30s.Kirsts Luhaers/Unsplash

Abortion is a common experience for Australian women. Around one in six have had an abortion by their mid-30s, according our new research published today in the Australia New Zealand Journal of Public Health.

Narratives about abortion often...

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Can bees do maths? Yes – new research shows they can add and subtract

  • Written by: Scarlett Howard, PhD candidate, RMIT University
Can bees do maths? Yes – new research shows they can add and subtractCan we have a count of all the honeycomb cells please? from www.shutterstock.com

The humble honeybee can use symbols to perform basic maths including addition and subtraction, shows new research published today in the journal Science Advances.

Bee have miniature brains - but they can learn basic arithmetic.

Despite having a brain containing less...

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What TV comedy The Good Place tells us about why banks and other corporations do bad things

  • Written by: Danny Davis, Executive Director, Australian Institute of Performance Sciences, and researcher at, La Trobe University
What TV comedy The Good Place tells us about why banks and other corporations do bad thingsKristen Bell, William Jackson Harper, Ted Danson, Jameela Jamil and D'Arcy Carden from The Good Place. The TV series' navigation of ethics shares touch points with Australia's banking royal commission. IMDB

What does the American Netflix fantasy-comedy The Good Place have in common with Australia’s banking royal commission?

The Good Place, in...

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  1. Five tips to make school bookshelves more diverse and five books to get you started
  2. Where are the in-depth documentaries calling to account the institutions that are failing us?
  3. What is Islamic dispute resolution and why is it controversial in Australia?
  4. Morrison plays scare card on medical transfer bill
  5. One Infinity explores tension and connection between China and the West
  6. why are burps so loud?
  7. do we really need to take 10,000 steps a day?
  8. Old bones reveal new evidence about the role of islands in penguin evolution
  9. The Treaty of Waitangi and its influence on identity politics in New Zealand
  10. What actually is populism? And why does it have a bad reputation?
  11. Whose hearts, livers and lungs are transplanted in China? Origins must be clear in human organ research
  12. Considering using IVF to have a baby? Here's what you need to know
  13. How Hayne failed remote Australia
  14. How public ineptitude and private enterprise combined to give Venezuela hyperinflation
  15. Feminist hero Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been stifled by a new patriarchal construct: the cinema
  16. why the physical environment is important too
  17. Is social housing essential infrastructure? How we think about it does matter
  18. the significance of the Treaty of Waitangi
  19. Why bank shares are climbing despite the royal commission
  20. we should legislate on Hayne recommendations before election
  21. Michael McCormack on banks and the bush, and the election battle
  22. The shocking use of 'jiggers' in horse racing
  23. Just So You Know...The Conversation launches a Q&A service for teens
  24. Queensland's floods are so huge the only way to track them is from space
  25. Cladding fires expose gaps in building material safety checks. Here's a solution
  26. Our 'bee-eye camera' helps us support bees, grow food and protect the environment
  27. Graeme Simsion's The Rosie Result puts autism front and centre
  28. Five warning signs of overdiagnosis
  29. Hayne's failure to tackle bank structure means that in a decade or so another treasurer will have to call another royal commission
  30. Influential doctors aren't disclosing their drug company ties
  31. the real problem is how we value executives and workers
  32. Australians accept government surveillance, for now
  33. a 10-point plan to fix the residential building industry
  34. We discovered a warped and twisted disc of young, massive stars at the edge of our Milky Way
  35. There's insufficient evidence your sunscreen harms coral reefs
  36. Tarpe Mills, 1940s comic writer, and her feisty superhero Miss Fury
  37. Murray-Darling report shows public authorities must take climate change risk seriously
  38. no commissions, no exemptions, no fees without permission. Hayne gets the government to do a U-turn
  39. Compensation scheme to follow Hayne’s indictment of financial sector
  40. Changes to commenting at The Conversation
  41. New study confirms what scientists already know: basic research is under-valued
  42. Research shows most online consumer contracts are incomprehensible, but still legally binding
  43. why do we need soap?
  44. The humble spade flower moonlights as the ‘love shrub’
  45. Online trolling used to be funny, but now the term refers to something far more sinister
  46. Want to improve your mood? It's time to ditch the junk food
  47. Why the federal government’s new integrity commission isn't up to the job
  48. When extreme weather wipes out wildlife, the fallout can last for years
  49. imagine you are in Canada
  50. Six questions our banks need to answer to regain trust

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