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How creativity can help us cultivate moral imagination

  • Written by: Elizabeth Reid Boyd, Senior Lecturer School of Arts and Humanities, Edith Cowan University
How creativity can help us cultivate moral imaginationTo imagine is to form a mental image, to think, believe, dream, picture.Shutterstock

She had quite forgotten the Duchess by this time, and was a little startled when she heard her voice close to her ear. “You’re thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you forget to talk. I can’t tell you just now what the moral of that...

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how groups and individuals spread racist hate online

  • Written by: Ana-Maria Bliuc, Senior Lecturer in Social Psychology, Western Sydney University
how groups and individuals spread racist hate onlineWe could see even sharper divisions in society in the future if support for racism spreads online. Markus Spiske/Unsplash

Living in a networked world has many advantages. We get our news online almost as soon as it happens, we stay in touch with friends via social media, and we advance our careers through online professional networks.

But there is a...

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Bees can learn the difference between European and Australian Indigenous art styles in a single afternoon

  • Written by: Andrew Barron, Associate Professor, Macquarie University

We’ve known for a while that honey bees are smart cookies. They have excellent navigation skills, they communicate symbolically through dance, and they’re the only insects that have been shown to learn abstract concepts.

Honey bees might also add the title of art connoisseur to their box of tricks. In part one of ABC Catalyst’s The...

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what causes bloating and gassiness?

  • Written by: Vincent Ho, Senior Lecturer and clinical academic gastroenterologist, Western Sydney University
what causes bloating and gassiness?One in six healthy people report problems with bloating.Alice Day/Shutterstock

Your trousers fit when you put them on in the morning. But come mid-afternoon, they’re uncomfortably tight – and you didn’t even overdo it at lunchtime. Sound familiar?

Around one in six people without a health problem and three in four people with...

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  2. Farmed fish dying, grape harvest weeks early – just some of the effects of last summer's heatwave in NZ
  3. The off-topic Conversation #174
  4. how did spoken language start?
  5. No surplus, no share market growth, no lift in wage growth. Economic survey points to bleaker times post-election
  6. Why a government would be mad to advise the refusal of royal assent to a bill passed against its will
  7. Flying taxis within five years? Not likely
  8. Australian school stories on screen
  9. Back at school? Here's how to keep kids free of head lice
  10. To predict droughts, don't look at the skies. Look in the soil... from space
  11. Morrison commits to 1.25 million new jobs over five years
  12. View from The Hill: Independent push against Frydenberg
  13. Too big to fail. The risks to Australian taxpayers from New Zealand banks
  14. The 'sharing economy' simply dresses up our consumerist tendencies in a more palatable ideology
  15. is it safe to run while pregnant?
  16. what's it like and how can it be made better?
  17. María, a slave in Manila who resisted sexual exploitation
  18. Lift teacher status to improve student performance
  19. Two more Morrison ministers head for the door
  20. Cave rescue heroes share Australian of the Year
  21. Australian-Chinese author's detention raises important questions about China's motivations
  22. Geosiris is an early contender for Sexiest Plant of 2019
  23. Beware of Pity is beautiful to watch, but clashes with modern sensibilities
  24. Michelle Grattan on Morrison's first political plays of 2019
  25. Drinking water study raises health concerns for New Zealanders
  26. Higher English entry standards for international students won't necessarily translate to success
  27. We're awarding the Order of Australia to the wrong people
  28. New research reveals our complex attitudes to Australia Day
  29. Why people born between 1966 and 1994 are at greater risk of measles – and what to do about it
  30. Mary Jane Cain, land rights activist, matriarch and community builder
  31. The stubborn high-pressure system behind Australia's record heatwaves
  32. To protect us from the risks of advanced artificial intelligence, we need to act now
  33. Australia's trade history really is something to celebrate
  34. Liberals stir the culture war pot but who's listening?
  35. is rain better than tap water for plants?
  36. what does the law say?
  37. My possessions spark joy! Will the KonMari decluttering method work for me?
  38. New research reveals how the marriage equality debate damaged LGBT Australians' mental health
  39. How genes and evolution shape gender – and transgender – identity
  40. Alban Berg's Wozzeck, an apocalyptic descent into madness
  41. When to seek help after taking a pill
  42. Here's how a 100% renewable energy future can create jobs and even save the gas industry
  43. 'Growth' of community housing may be an illusion. The cost-shifting isn't
  44. why more older Australians are declaring bankruptcy
  45. How safe is Australia? The numbers show public attacks are rare and on the decline
  46. Record US government shutdown harms Trump's ratings, plus Brexit chaos and Australian Essential poll
  47. Henrietta Baird's The Weekend proves the enduring power of solo performance
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