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Is your love life an open (Face)book?
Jorja Fraser | July 14, 2021Researchers at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology’s School of Health and Biomedical Sciences are looking for your help with a new project examining issues of jealousy and surveillance on the Facebook social media platform.
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All at sea
Kathryn Robinson | July 13, 2021Cruise lines enjoyed a renaissance in recent decades which came to an abrupt halt as COVID swept the world, with the industry suffering blows it may take a long time to recover from.
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Restoring public trust in the fight against COVID
Mark Evans | July 13, 2021Australia remains locked down with a stalled vaccine rollout, while the US, UK and other countries are opening up, and public trust in the government is eroding.
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Every spot of green counts
Open Forum | July 13, 2021Even the humble roadside verge plays an important role in the environment and for our health, according to an Australian and international study of parks and gardens.
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The insights and idiocy of social media research
Nicole Cruz | July 12, 2021The methods used to generate evidence for seemingly significant scientific findings regarding social media can also seem to support nonsensical claims.
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Face to face
Tyne Sumner | July 11, 2021New research looks at how the human face is represented in writing from the medieval to contemporary eras, revealing how we have interpreted human emotion for centuries.
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Remembering the first post-pandemic Olympics
Keith Rathbone | July 11, 2021Japan has battled through the pandemic to host the Olympic Games, albeit a year late and without spectators. However tough the conditions later this July, competitors at the first Olympics after the Spanish Flu – and Great War – had much more to put up with.
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The COVID blame game
Jason Thompson | July 11, 2021The term ‘living with COVID’ heralds a transition that may ultimately see blame for cases, illness, deaths and economic damage shifted away from Government and onto the individual.
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Hola, salut, hello, ciao
Ben Knight | July 11, 2021There’s never been a better time to start learning another language, and there could be some unexpected upsides.
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Health v the economy is a false dichotomy
Open Forum | July 10, 2021While the health of the economy and the population are often pitted against each other, most economists agree that lockdowns are the best option when tackling a serious COVID outbreak.
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Winning the war for innovation
Kapil Patil | July 9, 2021In its bid to stay competitive with China, Washington confronts the challenge of creating a global innovation order that is rules-based and safeguards the interests of both developed and developing countries.
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Living with COVID-19?
Rosemary Calder | July 9, 2021Sydney has been plunged into a tighter, and potentially longer lock-down to curb the spread of the Delta variant, but in the long term vaccinations will allow us to accept COVID as another endemic disease.
