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If Dr Google's making you sick with worry, there's help

  • Written by Jill Newby, Associate Professor and MRFF/NHMRC Career Development Fellow, UNSW
If Dr Google's making you sick with worry, there's helpYour twitching eye is more likely to be due to staring at a screen for too long rather than some serious illness.from www.shutterstock.com

It’s a busy day at the office and your left eye has been twitching uncontrollably. So, out of curiosity and irritation you Google it.

Various benign causes — stress, exhaustion, too much caffeine...

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the $85 million plan to desalinate water for drought relief

  • Written by Lin Crase, Professor of Economics and Head of School, University of South Australia

The deal to crank up Adelaide’s desalination plant to make more water available to farmers in the drought-stricken Murray-Darling Basin makes no sense.

It involves the federal government paying the South Australian government up to A$100 million to produce more water for Adelaide using the little-used desalination plant.

The plant was...

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Why do many people with Parkinson's disease develop an addiction? We built a virtual casino to find out

  • Written by Philip Mosley, Research Fellow, Systems Neuroscience Laboratory, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
Why do many people with Parkinson's disease develop an addiction? We built a virtual casino to find outWe knew people with Parkinson's disease were at heightened risk of developing addictive behaviours like gambling. Our research gives insight into why this is.From shutterstock.com

Parkinson’s disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder affecting one in 350 Australians.

It’s caused by the loss of cells deep within the brain that...

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  1. how sexbots are marketed as companions
  2. 12 simple ways you can reduce bushfire risk to older homes
  3. how we use music to make ourselves feel at home
  4. ancient Egyptians tamed wild ibis for sacrifice
  5. the ABC's complex debate over its role as sports broadcaster
  6. How does poor air quality from bushfire smoke affect our health?
  7. here are 5 steps to help them cope
  8. how Australian bushfire writing has changed with the climate
  9. getting to the bottom of the city-country divide
  10. If Australian police officers are allowed to shoot to kill, they should be better trained
  11. Why municipal waste-to-energy incineration is not the answer to NZ's plastic waste crisis
  12. the cum-ex trading scandal and why it matters
  13. What did the High Court decide in the Pell case? And what happens now?
  14. As flames encroach, those at risk may lose phone signal when they need it most
  15. If you've given your DNA to a DNA database, US police may now have access to it
  16. Victims of child sex abuse still face significant legal barriers suing churches
  17. UWA Publishing has helped take Australian poetry into the world. Its closure would be catastrophic for poets
  18. What is a 'mass extinction' and are we in one now?
  19. It's 25 years since we redefined autism – here's what we've learnt
  20. Own a bike you never ride? We need to learn how to fail better at active transport
  21. how growth in population and consumption drives planetary change
  22. Why Australia's first securities class action judgment (sort of) cleared Myer
  23. how bushfires create their own ferocious weather systems
  24. Vaping-related lung disease now has a name – and a likely cause. 5 things you need to know about EVALI
  25. Japanese visual storytelling comes alive at OzAsia
  26. Mr Morrison, I lost my home to bushfire. Your thoughts and prayers are not enough
  27. this year's OzAsia festival fused worlds in dance
  28. Reading is more than sounding out words and decoding. That's why we use the whole language approach to teaching it
  29. the story behind our dairy woes
  30. 1 in 10 women with endometriosis report using cannabis to ease their pain
  31. Why every child needs explicit phonics instruction to learn to read
  32. it's not us, it's the other lot, say the experts. So who do we believe?
  33. The government's 'new page' on Indigenous policy is actually just more of the same
  34. Frances Levvy, Australia's quietly radical early animal rights campaigner
  35. As NZ votes on euthanasia bill, here is a historical perspective on a 'good death'
  36. Some women seem to lack a key brain structure for smell -- but their sense of smell is fine
  37. When a tree dies, don't waste your breath. Rescue the wood to honour its memory
  38. Shareholder activism might sound good, but it's delusional to think it will change anything much
  39. Photojournalists are telling an important story and they should interact with their subjects
  40. Drought and climate change were the kindling, and now the east coast is ablaze
  41. 3-parent IVF could prevent illness in many children (but it's really more like 2.002-parent IVF)
  42. No, a 'complex' system is not to blame for corporate wage theft
  43. Media companies are mad as hell at tech giants and don't want to take it anymore. But what choice do they have?
  44. Hackers are now targeting councils and governments, threatening to leak citizen data
  45. The open access shift at UWA Publishing is an experiment doomed to fail
  46. The government is committed to an Indigenous voice. We should give it a chance to work
  47. We may one day grow babies outside the womb, but there are many things to consider first
  48. Reading progress is falling between year 5 and 7, especially for advantaged students: 5 charts
  49. Frozen in time, the casts of Indigenous Australians who performed in 'human zoos' are chilling
  50. Why Australia is still grappling with the legacy of the first world war

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