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Sign up to Thrive and learn to live well

  • Written by: Fron Jackson-Webb, Senior Health + Medicine Editor/Chief of Staff
Sign up to Thrive and learn to live wellYour weekly dose of evidence.

Eat this, don’t eat that. Exercise like this, not like that. Sleep more, sleep less. Sound like something you’ve heard before? Well, we’re tired off it too.

When it comes to the world of health and living, there are a million different opinions floating around, all claiming to know the best best way...

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can comedy really change our environmental behaviours?

  • Written by: Kim Borg, Doctoral Candidate & Research Officer at BehaviourWorks Australia, Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University
can comedy really change our environmental behaviours?Bernard Hermant/Unsplash

Someone (possibly George Bernard Shaw) once said: “If you want to tell people the truth, you’d better make them laugh or they’ll kill you”. While comedy can certainly soften a message, can it really change our behaviour?

ABC radio will tonight host a live comedy debate ahead of the next series of its...

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The winners and losers in the 2018 World Cup broadcast battle

  • Written by: Marc C-Scott, Lecturer in Screen Media, Victoria University

France might have won the 2018 World Cup title, but who were the real winners in the broadcast battle? Not everyone could make it to Russia to watch the games live, and that left people all over the world relying on the distribution and associated media rights within their region.

In Australia there was a lot of debate and discussion around the...

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how Tasmania's Aboriginal people reclaimed a language, palawa kani

  • Written by: Kristyn Harman, Senior Lecturer in History; Graduate Research Coordinator, School of Humanities; Course Coordinator, Diploma of History, University of Tasmania
how Tasmania's Aboriginal people reclaimed a language, palawa kaniHobart's Mount Wellington is now also known by its palawa kani name, kunanyiShutterstock

Truganini’s death in Hobart in May 1876 attracted worldwide attention. She was widely, but wrongly, believed to have been the last Aboriginal person to have survived the Tasmanian genocide. Her demise symbolised the devastating impacts of British...

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  5. Ten classics of Indigenous design
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  7. Does osteopathy work?
  8. What Australia's convict past reveals about women, men, marriage and work
  9. When art meets reality TV our visual literacy is found wanting
  10. Why Trump has made Europe more fearful of a possible Russian attack
  11. Plastic poses biggest threat to seabirds in New Zealand waters, where more breed than elsewhere
  12. Explaining Australia's school funding debate: what's at stake
  13. So your child refuses to go to school? Here's how to respond
  14. US citizens can now publish models of 3D printed firearms online. What does it mean for us?
  15. A new study should be the final nail for open-plan offices
  16. Indigenous peoples are crucial for conservation – a quarter of all land is in their hands
  17. Rossini’s William Tell, and its famous overture
  18. Why Australians' religious freedom is worth protecting
  19. Workers' compensation doesn't cover gig workers – here's a way to protect them
  20. A new blood test could detect early stage melanoma in more than 80% of patients
  21. If an insect is flying in a car while it is moving, does the insect have to move at the same speed?
  22. AEMO's new electricity plan is neither a death knell nor a shot in the arm for coal
  23. the science of beautiful sunsets
  24. Think the dual citizenship saga does not affect state parliamentarians? It might be time to think again
  25. How rising inequality is stalling economies by crippling demand
  26. How an alien seaweed invasion spawned an Antarctic mystery
  27. A brief history of briefs – and how technology is transforming underpants
  28. Russia's World Cup widely hailed as success, but will the good vibes last for Putin?
  29. Australian jobs aren't becoming less secure
  30. CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing scissors are less accurate than we thought, but there are fixes
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  32. who really deserves the rewards from success?
  33. New Treasury secretary rolls the dice on his future
  34. the case for opting in
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  36. How ideas of 'adulthood', its rights and responsibilities, are changing around the world
  37. tracing the cultural history of the monstrous Lambton Worm
  38. The off-topic Conversation #164
  39. You've heard of a carbon footprint – now it's time to take steps to cut your nitrogen footprint
  40. Why Australia's homelessness problem is getting worse, despite a rise in housing stock
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  42. Why plastic bag bans triggered such a huge reaction
  43. As Trump meets Putin, expectations may be high but the prospects are poor
  44. Curious Kids: Why do birds sing?
  45. The science and art of reef restoration
  46. William Faulkner diagnosed modern ills in As I Lay Dying
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