Five trends that will define the world’s forests in 2016
Jan 19, 2016 02:20 am UTC| Life
The past year has been a momentous time for the worlds forests, with both good and bad news. Fasten your seat belts, because 2016 promises to be another roller-coaster ride. Here I hightlight five factors that could...
How bosses can use humour to beat the January blues
Jan 18, 2016 07:46 am UTC| Life
It has been pronounced that January 18 is 2016s Blue Monday the most miserable day of the year. The combination of being fed up with winter, the grim aftermath of Christmas spending, and the back-to-work blues supposedly...
Parents can help, but children take a DIY approach to learning language
Jan 17, 2016 23:53 pm UTC| Life
Parents can help children develop their language. But when it comes to building the linguistic structure that undergirds the language, new research shows that children would rather do it themselves. Perhaps one of the...
Migrant communities think more like non-migrants after just one generation, study suggests
Jan 16, 2016 10:30 am UTC| Research & Analysis Life
A common fear among the general public in many Western countries is that immigrants have ways of thinking or social values that are fundamentally different to them, and that these differences prevent them from integrating...
Drinking is bad for you – that's why it's fun
Jan 16, 2016 10:27 am UTC| Life
Why do we drink alcohol? And what would make us do less of it? The government has its own answers on January 8, the chief medical officer for England, Dame Sally Davies, announced the new government alcohol guidelines....
Clean your way to happiness: unpacking the decluttering craze
Jan 14, 2016 04:11 am UTC| Life
Sydneys first Muji store opened in 2015 and with it came attractive minimalism, simplicity, and functionality a kind of consumption that was somehow about consuming less. The Japanese retailer offering home-wares,...
Are Powerball drawings and 'Quick Pick' numbers really random?
Jan 14, 2016 04:02 am UTC| Life
The math behind all the discussion of tonights Powerball drawing assumes true randomness equal likelihood for each number to be chosen, both in the drawing itself and, crucially, in the process of assigning Quick Picks to...