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do neckties reduce blood supply to the brain?

  • Written by: Steve Kassem, Postdoctoral fellow, Neuroscience Research Australia
do neckties reduce blood supply to the brain?The fashion advice is generally to tighten ties so they're tight but not too tight.from www.shutterstock.com

News reports about a study from Germany may provide the ultimate excuse for men to dress more casually for work, finding neckties reduce blood supply to the brain.

The study showed that wearing a tie that causes slight discomfort can reduce...

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booming jobs numbers, but dig deeper and it's not all rosy

  • Written by: Richard Holden, Professor of Economics and PLuS Alliance Fellow, UNSW

Vital Signs is a regular economic wrap from UNSW economics professor and Harvard PhD Richard Holden (@profholden). Vital Signs aims to contextualise weekly economic events and cut through the noise of the data affecting global economies.


The latest labour market data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics provide an instructive lens into the...

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Universities can help recruit more science and maths teachers, but they can't do it alone

  • Written by: Linda Hobbs, Associate Professor of Education (Science Education), Deakin University
Universities can help recruit more science and maths teachers, but they can't do it aloneEncouraging students to study science and maths at university is only one step in a complex pipeline that turns out specialist teachers.from www.shutterstock.com

Calls for universities to recruit more science and maths students as a way of boosting numbers of specialist school teachers, or risk losing funding, fails to recognise the complexity of...

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Empty car parks everywhere, but nowhere to park. How cities can do better

  • Written by: Elizabeth Taylor, Vice Chancellor's Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, RMIT University
Empty car parks everywhere, but nowhere to park. How cities can do betterA parking attendant strolls through a rooftop car park in MelbourneJay Miller/flickr, CC BY-NC

It’s a familiar story in Australian cities: a new apartment building is proposed, and debate soon follows about whether the new residents will have enough public transport or coffee shops. Just kidding. Heated discussion is almost invariably about...

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  5. When whistleblowers are prosecuted, it has a chilling effect on press freedom in Australia
  6. Disillusioned voters find it easy to embrace a crossbencher like Rebekha Sharkie
  7. what is parricide and how common is it in Australia?
  8. Rising reliance on personal income tax signals need for bolder reforms
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  10. can comedy really change our environmental behaviours?
  11. The winners and losers in the 2018 World Cup broadcast battle
  12. how Tasmania's Aboriginal people reclaimed a language, palawa kani
  13. Tech innovators start to see old-fashioned benefits of collective bargaining
  14. a fishy tale much more primitive than we thought
  15. Do 'screaming children' in playgrounds ruin neighbourhood parks?
  16. The case for introducing rhinos to Australia
  17. Ten classics of Indigenous design
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  21. When art meets reality TV our visual literacy is found wanting
  22. Why Trump has made Europe more fearful of a possible Russian attack
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  24. Explaining Australia's school funding debate: what's at stake
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  28. Indigenous peoples are crucial for conservation – a quarter of all land is in their hands
  29. Rossini’s William Tell, and its famous overture
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