It may seem like it’s impossible to find a car park on the street. As a recent Grattan Institute report makes clear, Australia actually has an oversupply of parking, both on streets and in parking lots. Across five of the ...
Why do some people seem to thrive under pressure while others seem to fold or crumple? This phenomenon is also known as choking and is defined as performing worse than expected given ability in a situation with a high degree ...
Rivers across the Missouri Ozarks, southeast Kansas and northeastern Oklahoma are still running well above flood stage Monday, as the runoff from last week’s heavy storms continues working through regional drainage systems — and forecasters are already warning of another ...
Conservationists analyse overwhelming volumes of ecological data in their work. For example, they might need to process decades of weather data or the movements of millions of insects. Up until now, these scientists and decision makers have had to manually ...
Headlines on sex, drugs, sports and divorce always attract eyeballs. In fact, the entire tabloid industry has been built on the public’s hunger for scandal and schadenfreude. TMZ is no exception. Through the years, it has become the go-to source ...
The French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan once said that the most tragic thing about masculinity was that it had a symbol. He didn’t have He-Man in mind when he made this comment. He died in 1981, two years before the original ...
As a certified music therapist, I have observed firsthand the many ways music can bring meaning and beauty into people’s lives, even under very difficult circumstances. Much of my clinical work and research has occurred in dementia care. Here, music ...