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Size is largely in the mind: how your body image can change in two minutes

  • Written by: Kevin Brooks, Associate Professor in Human Visual Perception, Macquarie University
imageMany not only feel dissatisfied with their bodies, they actually believe they are heavier than they really are.from shutterstock.com

Have you ever looked at yourself in a full-length mirror and wished you looked more like the beautiful people who grace the covers of glossy magazines? If so, you are by no means alone.

Body dissatisfaction is so...

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The new Senate looms as a serious problem for a damaged Malcolm Turnbull

  • Written by: Nick Economou, Senior Lecturer, School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University
imageWe will get an early insight into the Turnbull government’s likely approach to dealing with the Senate crossbench.AAP/Lukas Coch

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and his Liberal colleagues have had a very poor election. The result in the Senate only confirms just how bad the 2016 contest was for the Coalition.

One seat away from being in...

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Death by dingo: outsourcing pest control raises uncomfortable questions

  • Written by: Guy Ballard, Adjunct Senior Lecturer, University of New England
imageFemale dingo in Oxley Wild Rivers NP, New South WalesGuy Ballard, CC BY-NC

From cats and foxes to goats and cane toads, invasive animals are one of Australia’s biggest environmental problems. Over the past few weeks, one Queensland council has been trying a new approach to controlling goats on an offshore island: introducing dingoes from the...

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Without action, Asia-Pacific ecosystems could lose a third of their value by 2050

  • Written by: Ida Kubiszewski, Senior Lecturer at Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Ecosystem services – the natural processes that allow Earth to sustain life and provide us with everything we have and see – are facing an uncertain future.

Between 1997 and 2011, the global value of ecosystem services declined by up to US$20 trillion per year as a result of changing land use. To put that in context, the world’s...

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  3. Why technology makes us dishonest: ways to reduce cheating at self-service checkouts
  4. Further Senate results and analysis
  5. The 'no' campaign on marriage equality owes us better arguments
  6. Capitalism and Democracy [part 3]
  7. Whither anarchy: the fantasy of natural law
  8. Whither anarchy: ownness as a form of freedom
  9. Turnbull inquiry-lite bank plan falls short
  10. Latest PBO costings won't hold any parties to account
  11. Here's how you beat 'indestructible' head lice
  12. One Nation's Malcolm Roberts is in denial about the facts of climate change
  13. Whither anarchy: perspectives on anarchism and liberty
  14. Whither anarchy: freedom as non-domination
  15. Are university flagship courses actually workable? And will they be a disaster for equity?
  16. The white man's burden: Bill Leak and telling 'the truth' about Aboriginal lives
  17. Fast food companies use social networking sites to target children
  18. So, how did the new Senate voting rules work in practice?
  19. Road rage: why normal people become harmful on the roads
  20. The man who brought science and a touch of humanity to Australia's Olympic swimming hopes
  21. We don't remove comments just because we disagree with them
  22. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the new Senate
  23. Women are satisfied with 'women's work' but not with the pay
  24. Common method of preventing early births may be causing more
  25. Raising chisel to stone, and making art
  26. One of Marlowe's finest plays roars into the 21st century
  27. Rubbishing Rio – someone's got to do it
  28. Explainer: who's who on the new Senate crossbench?
  29. Survival of the fittest: the changing shapes and sizes of Olympic athletes
  30. In no mood for games: the pale Olympic flame of Rio 2016
  31. Pay doctors to keep patients healthy rather than just for treating illness
  32. Friday essay: why a building and its rooms should have a human character
  33. Reimagining NSW: how a happy, healthy regional and rural citizenry helps us all
  34. How we used a particle accelerator to find the hidden face in Degas's Portrait of a woman
  35. Should monopoly businesses have an obligation to create competition?
  36. Vital Signs: only the banks know how low rates can go
  37. Bitcoin users largely shrug off latest $69 m Bitcoin exchange heist
  38. Grattan on Friday: Twenty years on, the Perils of Pauline haunt another Liberal leader
  39. Weiner's erotic mediation: Bill Clinton's sex vs Anthony Weiner's sexting
  40. Bank executives forced before parliamentary committee for 'regular health check'
  41. St Vincent's scandal: what's the protocol for chemotherapy and are low doses less effective?
  42. State of the Climate 2015: global warming and El Niño sent records tumbling
  43. Explainer: how student fees are set for different university courses
  44. Final Senate results: 30 Coalition, 26 Labor, 9 Greens, 4 One Nation, 3 NXT, 4 Others
  45. Ethics and writing
  46. FactCheck Q A: as the climate changes, are 750 million refugees predicted to move away from flooding?
  47. Why are so many Indigenous kids in detention in the NT in the first place?
  48. Government offers hope by telling CSIRO to reinvest in climate research
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