By Catherine Houlihan, Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology, University of the Sunshine Coast
If you regularly scroll health and wellness content online, you’ve no doubt heard of optimising.
Optimisation usually means striving to make something the best it can be – the “optimal” version. A decade ago, it was mainly used to talk about workplace strategy, describing how a positive mindset might increase workers’ productivity.
But more recently it’s exploded…
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By Gwyn McClelland, Senior Lecturer, Japanese Studies, University of New England
Some 80 years ago, Nagasaki residents faced the seemingly impossible task of rebuilding a devastated city. A similar challenge faces those in Gaza today.
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By Geetanjali (Tanji) Lamba, Public Health Physician, Medical Advisor and PhD Candidate, Monash University
Kane Vellar, Clinical Professor, CDU Menzies Medical Program, Charles Darwin University
Paul Komesaroff, Professor of Medicine, Monash University
The Northern Territory is unique for so many reasons. That’s why voluntary assisted dying in the NT can’t be imported from elsewhere.
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By Philip C. Almond, Emeritus Professor in the History of Religious Thought, The University of Queensland
By the ninth century, influenced by the Christian idea, Islam and Judaism each had their own Antichrist figures who would come at the end of history.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Martha García and a group of representatives from organizations of people with disabilities meet in a Mexico Supreme Court chamber with Justice Hugo Aguilar Ortiz and Justices Lenia Batres and Yasmín Esquivel. © 2025 Jenny Bautista/Human Rights Watch When Martha García, a young disability activist and student at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, heard the Supreme Court planned to change a legal precedent that could weaken the right of people with disabilities to engage in the democratic process, she decided to act. On October 13, the Court was expected…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Chinese paramilitary police at the Beijing airport prepare for the departure of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on June 20, 2018. © 2018 Greg Backer/AFP via Getty Images (Seoul) – Chinese authorities since 2024 have forcibly returned at least 406 people to North Korea, where they are at grave risk of persecution and ill-treatment, Human Rights Watch said today.The Chinese government’s forced return of North Koreans puts them at high risk of torture, wrongful imprisonment, sexual violence, forced labor, and possible execution, in violation of international human…
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By Mags Lesiak, PhD Researcher in Psychological Criminology, University of Cambridge
Perpetrators used emotional connection to create a sense of closeness early in the relationship, later using it against their victims.
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By Kathy Hartley, Senior Lecturer in People Management, University of Salford
Many of us will have experienced the rage that comes with being badly treated at work – and maybe even felt the instinct to pack up and leave. Bad bosses, belittling treatment or poor pay could be behind these kneejerk emotions. But, while most employees swallow their anger and get back to work, some walk out in a way that tells their employer exactly how they feel. Welcome to the world of “revenge quitting”.
Unlike “quiet quitting”,“ where workers stay…
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By Helen E. Nuttall, Senior Lecturer in Cognitive Neuroscience, Lancaster University
Hearing involves more than just the ears – it’s intimately connected to how we think and feel. A recent study has shed light on the possible links between hearing, emotion, and cognition by investigating misophonia, a condition where someone experiences an extreme emotional response to particular sounds.
If you’ve ever felt inexplicably furious at the sound of someone chewing or clicking a pen, you might have some insight into what people with misophonia experience. The triggers can be sounds made by the…
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By Ligin Joseph, PhD Candidate, Oceanography, University of Southampton
Across India, torrential rains over the past few months have swallowed an entire village in the Himalayas, flooded Punjab’s farmlands and brought Kolkata to a standstill. This all happened in a monsoon season in which total rainfall was technically only 8% above normal.
Climate change is not simply making India’s monsoon wetter. It’s making it wilder – with longer dry spells and more extreme downpours.
The Indian summer monsoon, which delivers about 80% of the country’s annual rainfall, usually…
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