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Driven to distraction: Why be mindful in this unmindful world?

When we reflect on our most important formative experiences in life — and they do not come along every day — we might have noticed that they have something in common. They tend to be moments of feeling most fully present, aware and intensely alive. What tends to follow from that is also rather interesting and important. They are the moments where we feel connected to ourselves and the world around us, that we experience beauty, discover things about ourselves, and learn life’s most important lessons

By Writing|2022-01-23T12:44:23+11:00December 14th, 2021|Health|Comments Off

A reckoning with climate distress: Restoring hope and igniting meaningful actions

Climate change affects our emotional wellbeing. With increasing exposures to climate-related hazards, dire projections by climate scientists, and the news media highlighting our impending doom in epic proportions, it is no wonder so many of us are feeling worried, anxious and hopeless about climate change

By Writing|2022-01-23T12:44:10+11:00December 14th, 2021|Environment & Energy|Comments Off

How climate change exacerbates pollution and threatens human health

Pollution of our environment has been recognised as a problem for eons. Early humans knew that separating waste from consumables was essential to health, even if they did not understand the true reasons why. Pollution has often been separated from climate change as though they are two separate issues and that the problems of dealing with pollution are unrelated to the issues of climate change

By Writing|2021-12-16T14:52:09+11:00December 14th, 2021|Environment & Energy, Health|Comments Off

We Must Adapt to Our Changing Climate

Our climate is changing and so must we. As climate changes become manifest, our intrinsic survival instinct will make adaptation an inevitability. However, whether we change quickly and effectively enough to ameliorate catastrophic change so as to ensure future generations enjoy a safe climate is open to question

By Writing|2022-01-27T17:37:40+11:00December 14th, 2021|Environment & Energy|Comments Off

Proteins to plastics: chemistry as a dynamic discipline

Chemistry is the most central of scientific disciplines and under- pins the physical, material and biological world. Opportunities are abundant in the field of chemistry, as most major advances take place at the interface of two or more disciplines and chemistry sits at the core of trans-disciplinary research

By Writing|2022-03-01T12:50:00+11:00December 14th, 2021|Science & Technology|Comments Off

It takes two to tango: Emotional connection in couple relationships

The mysteries of passion, love, and how to best live day to day in a couple relationship is one of the most constant subject of conversations. Literature is dominated by these themes and movies make millions from the subject, highlighting how couple relationships are a major source of emotional passion and joy, as well as the deepest pain

By Writing|2022-01-12T10:06:02+11:00December 14th, 2021|Arts, Culture & Society, Health|Comments Off

Chronic Disease and Public Health

The rising incidence of allergic and autoimmune diseases imposes an ever-increasing burden on individuals, populations and economies. Possible mechanisms for this phenomenon, related to changed environmental conditions that impact on immune response genes are discussed. In this chapter, we consider the role of reduced and delayed exposure of infants to infections, as well as additional factors that could promote chronic immuno-inflammatory disease

By Writing|2022-03-01T12:50:39+11:00December 14th, 2021|Health|Comments Off

Pathways into Noncommunicable Diseases Start Early in Life

We are living in a time of unprecedented risk for noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), such as obesity, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer and chronic pulmonary disease. In 2008, it was estimated by the World Health Organization that NCDs were responsible for 63% of deaths (57 million deaths) worldwide. In Australia and other developed countries, communicable (or infectious) diseases are no longer the primary cause of mortality

By Writing|2022-03-01T12:51:14+11:00December 14th, 2021|Health|Comments Off

The courage to set ambitious goals

In this chapter we explore how goals have been used to manage climate change. What is their role? What are they? Who sets them? Are they useful? Who is responsible for achieving them? Are they being achieved? We focus on Australia, but in a worldwide context

By Writing|2021-12-16T14:52:59+11:00December 14th, 2021|Environment & Energy|Comments Off

Cyber Racism

The internet has played a key role in the spread of racism, offering opportunities that amplify the reach and potential impact of White power, Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, Islamist and ultra-nationalist ideologies and actions. At the same time that racist organisations were discovering, exploring and exploiting the potential of the internet, the international community was recognising the dangers that the technology represented to community wellbeing and harmony

By Writing|2022-05-10T09:56:28+10:00December 14th, 2021|Arts, Culture & Society, Governance|Comments Off

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