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Body dysmorphic disorder and cosmetic surgery: are surgeons too quick to nip and tuck?

  • Written by David Jonathan Castle, Chair of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne
imageThe highest rates of body dysmorphic disorder are found among people seeking help from cosmetic surgeons, cosmetic dermatologists and other such specialists.Shutterstock

Most of us have some insecurities about how we look, and some aspects of our appearance that we might secretly wish were different. But for people with body dysmorphic disorder,...

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Decoding the music masterpieces: Liszt’s Piano Sonata in B minor

  • Written by Zoltan Szabo, Phd candidate and lecturer, University of Sydney
imageFranz Liszt in his home in Weimar, 1884.Bergen Public Library Norway/Flickr

Clara Schumann, the wife of the great composer Robert Schumann, wrote in her diary on 25 May 1854:

Liszt sent Robert today a sonata dedicated to him and several other things with a friendly letter to me. But the things are dreadful! [Johannes] Brahms played them for me, but...

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Inflight Wi-Fi highlights challenges of satellite broadband delivery on land and in the sky

  • Written by Thas Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas, Director - Melbourne Networked Society Institute, Professor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Co-Founder/Academic Director - Melbourne Accelerator Program, University of Melbourne
imageQantas is currently trialling its new satellite broadband inflight service. from www.shutterstock.com

Qantas switched on its free inflight internet service trial on April 7, with Virgin set to launch its own similar program later this month.

It’s been one year since Qantas made its original announcement of inflight Wi-Fi, and five months...

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Social impact investment can help retirees get the housing and care they need

  • Written by Eileen Webb, Associate Professor, Curtin Law School, Curtin University
imageGovernments alone cannot bridge the gaps and support affordable housing for seniors.shutterstock

A recent report raised concerns about the erosion of retirement income by ongoing rental or mortgage payments.

The report by the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees is timely, given the Australian aged pension system is predicated on an...

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  1. As live streaming murder becomes the new normal online, can social media be saved?
  2. Turnbull talks tough on foreign workers – deer farmers and historians off welcome list
  3. Exquisite prose, with rare and subtle insight
  4. Australian government axes 457 work visa: experts react
  5. NDIS hiccups are expected, as with any large-scale social reform
  6. Australia's back in the satellite business with a new launch
  7. Harrison Young appointed chairman of The Conversation
  8. Why it's so offensive when we call people animals
  9. How do we learn to read?
  10. Where the old things are: Australia's most ancient trees
  11. Australian politics explainer: the Labor Party split
  12. The off-topic Conversation #120
  13. Unflinching, luminous, and moving, the Stella shortlist will get under your skin
  14. Budget explainer: has there been a blowout in social security and welfare spending?
  15. Refugees need support to continue their careers – here's how it can be done
  16. The 'clean coal' row shouldn't distract us from using carbon capture for other industries
  17. What science says about getting the most out of your tea
  18. Degrees of separation: companies shed degree requirements to promote merit over qualifications
  19. Facts are not always more important than opinions: here's why
  20. When it comes to housing affordability debates, everything old is new again
  21. Science or snake oil: do meds like Remifemin ease hot flushes and night sweats in menopausal women?
  22. Australian politics explainer: how women gained the right to vote
  23. Death metal: how nickel played a role in the world's worst mass extinction
  24. What can the New Urban Agenda and Sustainable Development Goals do for cities?
  25. Good Friday essay: Passion plays and the ethics of spectacular violence
  26. How to reclaim Easter from the chocolate companies
  27. How religion rises – and falls – in modern Australia
  28. VPNs become even more important as ISPs start collecting customer metadata
  29. Grattan on Friday: Scott Morrison finds himself in a week of pain
  30. Politics podcast: Gareth Evans on Australian self-reliance
  31. Expert panel: ATO data shows inequality is in everything from super to the property market
  32. Here's how superannuation is already financing homes
  33. 13 Reasons Why and Ageing Out of Pop Culture
  34. Don't worry, the odds of catching legionnaires' disease in Melbourne are pretty slim
  35. Millions of rotting fish: turtles and crays can save us from Carpageddon
  36. Syria is a mess, but the solution is complicated too
  37. Explainer: the war in Syria and the possibility of removing Assad
  38. When it comes to euthanasia, not all slippery slope arguments are 'bullshit'
  39. Why does the Carmichael coal mine need to use so much water?
  40. Explainer: why some acts are classified as terrorism but others aren't
  41. What is 'success' in drug rehab? Programs need more than just anecdotes to prove they work
  42. How the blockchain will transform housing markets
  43. Guide to the Classics: Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale
  44. The school of hard knocks: driverless cars should learn lessons from crashes
  45. How murals helped turn a declining community around
  46. Anti-Trump backlash at US by-elections
  47. Australia’s climate bomb: the senselessness of Adani's Carmichael coal mine
  48. Attacking North Korea: surely Donald Trump couldn't be that foolish
  49. Health Check: does caffeine cause dehydration?
  50. Explainer: how wage growth contributes to the economy

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