The Conversation

Thu Jan 5

The world is getting fatter with technology as part of the problem and not the cure

Written by David Glance, Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, University of Western Australia

If you are one of the majority of people who make New Year’s resolutions, you are also very likely to fail at keeping them. Losing weight and being more active are always in the top 5 resolutions and unfortunately for the majority, the hardest to ever achieve for any significant period of time. No amount of...

Wed Jan 4

Enough's enough: buying more stuff isn't always the answer to happiness

Written by Anthony James, Lecturer, Swinburne University of Technology

The average German household contains 10,000 items. That’s according to a study cited by Frank Trentmann in his sweeping history of consumption, Empire of Things. We’re “bursting”, he says, with the amount of stuff that we have - while all of this consumption is steeping us in debt and dangerously depleting the...

Wed Jan 4

Kitchen ink: foodies, chefs and tattoos

Written by Paula Arvela, Honorary Post-Doctoral Research Associate, University of Wollongong

Food tattoos run the gamut of knuckle tattoos to cake mixers. Peter Woodman/Flickr, CC BY-SA

A foodie, according to Ann Barr and Paul Levy, is “a person who is very, very, very interested in food”.

Cultural scholars Josée Johnston and Shyon Baumann have somewhat expanded this definition, recently describing foodies as individuals...

Wed Jan 4

Prepare for a healthy holiday with this A-to-E guide

Written by Irani Thevarajan, Honorary Fellow Nossal Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases Physician, University of Melbourne

Most ill health can be avoided on family holidays through research and planning in advance, plus smart packing. from www.shutterstock.com

So your well-earned holiday is finally here. But before you pack your swim gear, magazines and camera, take a moment to think about your health.

Experiencing an illness in a foreign destination can be very...

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