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Your drive to the shops makes life pretty noisy for whales

  • Written by: Andrew J. Wright, Marine Mammal Researcher, Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Your drive to the shops makes life pretty noisy for whalesLiving alongside humans gets noisier all the time.Katrina Burgers/Shutterstock.com

As unlikely as it may seem, your drive to the supermarket is responsible for a lot of noise pollution in our oceans – and a lot of stress to marine life as a result.

Of course, it’s not the specific sound of your car trundling along the street that the...

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How we decide who and what we care about – and whether robots stand a chance

  • Written by: Dan Crimston, Postdoctoral Researcher in Morality and Social Psychology, The University of Queensland
How we decide who and what we care about – and whether robots stand a chanceThe 2014 film Ex Machina explored a dystopian vision of what could happen in a world where humans empathise with robots.Lionsgate Home Entertainment

When psychologists talk about a “moral circle” they are referring to how far we extend our moral consideration towards others. That is, whether we care about the well-being of others, and...

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Parents, stop nagging kids not to forget – set visual cues instead

  • Written by: Adam Bulley, PhD Student in Psychology, The University of Queensland
Parents, stop nagging kids not to forget – set visual cues insteadChildren develop the ability to compensate for memory failures only gradually as they get older.Annie Spratt

Every day, we have to remember intentions to perform specific tasks in the future. We may need to remember to buy milk on the way home from work, to return a book to the library next week, or take a certain pill at 8am every day....

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Death metal is often violent and misogynist yet it brings joy and empowerment to fans

  • Written by: Bill Thompson, Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders, Macquarie University
Death metal is often violent and misogynist yet it brings joy and empowerment to fansHeavy metal concert fans: there are striking differences in the emotional responses of fans and non-fans of death metal.Parth Joshi/flickr

Death metal is a baffling genre to many people. The music is aggressive, the lyrics are often violent and misogynistic, and it has been blamed for inciting violent crimes such as rape and murder.

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