By Cassandra Cross, Associate Dean (Learning & Teaching) Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice, Queensland University of Technology
Making a three-step plan with your family – including creating a secret password or phrase – can help keep you safe these holidays and throughout the year.
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By Missaka Nandalochana Hettiarachchi, Adjunct Professor in Disaster Management, James Cook University
Disasters like earthquakes and flood destroy homes and generate vast amounts of waste. Is there a better, greener way to rebuild affected communities?
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By Joanna Nicholas, Lecturer in Dance and Performance Science, Edith Cowan University
The festive season can throw our exercise routines out the window. You might be staying somewhere different, with no access to a gym. Maybe your yoga studio is closed or social sport is on a break. Or you might just be too flat out with social events to find the time.
For some people, a break from pushing their bodies will be exactly what they need.
But others will want to keep up the fitness and strength they’ve been working on throughout the year – and some will crave the mental release.
Here are some low-equipment, time-efficient strategies to keep you exercising…
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By Eric Parisot, Associate Professor in English Literature, Flinders University
It’s that time of year when our favourite Christmas stories reemerge to dominate the stage and screen. Prominent among them is The Nutcracker, a classic 19th-century tale that has been adapted in a variety of forms, but is best known as Tchaikovsky’s 1892 ballet.
Not many would know E.T.A. Hoffmann as the author of the original story, The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (1816), in which a child’s Christmas present comes to life. Even fewer would know much about him.
It is fair to say he is not the kind of writer some might imagine to be behind the delightful children’s fantasy…
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By Peter Jacobson, Senior Lecturer in Condensed Matter Physics, The University of Queensland
Beck Wise, Lecturer in Professional Writing, The University of Queensland
In 1977, an American physicist named John H. Van Vleck won the Nobel prize for his work on magnetism. In his Nobel lecture, amid a discussion of rare earth elements, one sentence leaps out:
Miss Frank and I made the relevant calculations.
Who was Miss Frank? Van Vleck credits her with key work on the quantum mechanics of magnetism, but she is almost absent from the history books.
Amelia Frank published a handful of scholarly papers which are well-cited…
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By Susanna Trnka, Professor of Anthropolgy, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
Young people are embracing the ‘healthization’ of all aspects of their lives, from the physical to the emotional and beyond. The trick is finding the right balance.
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By Jamshid Aghaei, Professor of Electrical Engineering at Central Queensland University, CQUniversity Australia
Milad Haghani, Associate Professor and Principal Fellow in Urban Risk and Resilience, The University of Melbourne
Mohammad Reza Salehizadeh, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Electrical Engineering, CQUniversity Australia
Australians are installing home batteries at record rates. They could be used not just to cut bills but as a backup after a natural disaster.
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By Lauren Samuelsson, Associate Lecturer in History, University of Wollongong
In new memoirs, a MasterChef judge and a restaurant reviewer reflect on how food has defined and guided their lives, careers and families.
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By Joanna Pozzulo, Chancellor's Professor, Psychology, Carleton University
The holidays can be filled with joy and positive emotion, but they can also be a time when stress is in overdrive. To-do lists can be long, with little time for personal well-being.
Approximately 50 per cent of Canadians report December as being the most stressful month of the year, with women 40 per cent more likely to experience stress due to pressure to manage holiday preparations. Over the season,…
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By Sadaf Mehrabi, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Environmental Engineering, Iowa State University
When a crisis strikes, rumours and conspiracy theories often spread faster than emergency officials can respond and issue corrections.
In Canada, social media posts have falsely claimed wildfires were intentionally set, that evacuation orders were government overreach or that smoke maps were being manipulated. In several communities, people delayed leaving because they were unsure which information to trust.
This wasn’t just online noise. It directly shaped how…
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