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Bosses deserve to be happy at work too – here's how

  • Written by: Peter John Hosie, Associate Professor , CQUniversity Australia
Bosses deserve to be happy at work too – here's howStressed? Me?fizkes/Shutterstock.com

We intuitively know that a “happy worker is a good worker.” But what about their bosses? In the modern workplace, managers are accountable to several groups of people, from rank-and-file employees on one side, to chief executives and shareholders on the other. How well they juggle these conflicting...

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As the shaky US-North Korea summit is set to begin, the parties must search for common interest

  • Written by: Benjamin Habib, Lecturer in International Relations, Department of Politics and Philosophy, La Trobe University

US President Donald Trump and North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un will meet on Tuesday for their highly anticipated summit in Singapore. For the summit to be productive, the negotiations need to converge on a lowest-common-denominator shared interest that both parties can agree on.

We saw this in the inter-Korean summit, where South Korean President...

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How traffic signals favour cars and discourage walking

  • Written by: David Levinson, Professor of Transport, University of Sydney
How traffic signals favour cars and discourage walkingThe settings on traffic lights make pedestrians wait longer by giving higher priority to vehicle traffic.Abaconda Management Group/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA

This is the fifth article in our series, Moving the Masses, about managing the flow of crowds of individuals, be they drivers or pedestrians, shoppers or commuters, birds or ants.


Traffic signals give...

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Upgrade is an extremely pleasurable sci-fi revenge film

  • Written by: Ari Mattes, Lecturer in Media Studies, University of Notre Dame Australia
Upgrade is an extremely pleasurable sci-fi revenge filmIn Upgrade, a man is implanted with AI, which gives him superhuman capabilities. Screenshot from Youtube

Review: Upgrade


The French philosopher Paul Virilio famously suggested, in recent works like The Original Accident, that the invention of every technology marks the simultaneous invention of its accident. The invention of the car invents the car...

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  2. Looking online for info on your child's health? Here are some tips
  3. Australia relies on volunteers to monitor its endangered species
  4. Life in a herd – and why in health watching symptoms is easy, but finding causes is hard
  5. Michelle Grattan on the changes to foreign interference laws
  6. from the meaning of time to the marvels of fungi
  7. Commonwealth Bank's $700 million fine will end up punishing its customers
  8. Revisiting metadata retention in light of the government’s push for new powers
  9. Most people don't benefit from vaccination, but we still need it to prevent infections
  10. Is Australia's current drought caused by climate change? It's complicated
  11. Government needs to slow down on changes to spying and foreign interference laws
  12. A bird’s eye view of New Zealand's changing glaciers
  13. Turnbull government shrinks Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme register
  14. Traffic is complex, but modelling using deceptively simple rules can help unravel what's going on
  15. Male dolphins use their individual 'names' to build a complex social network
  16. what might heaven be like?
  17. Bees join an elite group of species that understands the concept of zero as a number
  18. what's the difference between formative and summative assessment in schools?
  19. Why breakups are so hard and how to cope with them
  20. Twenty years on, One Nation is still chaotic, controversial and influential
  21. Criminal charges against banking 'cartels' show Australia is getting tough on competition law
  22. Liberals' Georgina Downer trailing in early Mayo poll
  23. Government and Labor unite to erect the barriers against foreign interference
  24. Passing the brumby bill is a backward step for environmental protection in Australia
  25. Here's what a privacy policy that's easy to understand could look like
  26. Fewer men who have sex with men are using condoms when taking PrEP, and that's OK
  27. Tony Albert’s politically charged kitsch collection confronts our racist past
  28. Australian fished populations drop by a third over ten years, study finds
  29. Manifeste pour les entreprenants… Par-delà les premiers de cordée
  30. Apple acknowledges the iKid generation at its developer conference with new parental controls
  31. Nature's traffic engineers have come up with many simple but effective solutions
  32. Religious freedoms should include spiritual beliefs too
  33. Haitch or aitch? How a humble letter was held hostage by historical haughtiness
  34. Five things parents can do to improve their children's eating patterns
  35. Many Australian school students feel they 'don't belong' in school: new research
  36. Live sheep exporters get longer 'grace' period for sub-standard ships
  37. 'Western civilisation'? History teaching has moved on, and so should those who champion it
  38. What's driving the sky-high child marriage rates in South Sudan
  39. Kate Spade, the archetypal New Yorker, sold whimsical, affordable luxury to women
  40. Paramedics need more support to deal with daily trauma
  41. three things you should know about volcano risk
  42. the quiet rise of gender-neutral toys
  43. Despite strong words, the US has few options left to reverse China's gains in the South China Sea
  44. Making a global agenda work locally for healthy, sustainable living in tropical Australia
  45. ANU's new entrance criteria won't do much to improve equity
  46. Why do our ears pop?
  47. Deterring cyber attacks: old problems, new solutions
  48. The world’s economic crisis-fighting mechanisms are dangerously inadequate
  49. Greens release annual figures for income tax package
  50. Turnbull wants Joyce to have continuing 'prominent role' in public life

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