Wellbeing

When applied to health, black-and-white thinking can mean thinking of oneself as either perfectly healthy or deathly ill—which might not be the case; therefore, we need to question and analyse our thoughts rather than just accepting them as the truth.

A report by the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA) has concluded there is no safe amount of alcohol, and having more than two drinks per week might risk your health.

Knowing your blood type is crucial in an emergency and can offer critical insight into your health—particularly heart disease.

Consumers may not understand the extent to which their personal information could be available to, or intercepted by, third parties.

Despite handing out thousands of traffic infringement notices, many drivers are not slowing down—road design might be the key to getting drivers to slow down.

The world will probably reach 10.4 billion in the 2080s, then begin to fall; wihtouth immigration, the replacement rate is 2.1 children per woman—Australia’s current birth rate is 1.794 per woman.

The current life expectancy for Australians in 2022 is 85.4 for females and 81.3 years for males—however, in 2023, life expectancy at birth is likely to fall by about six months.

In a break from tradition, Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) members are now allowed to grow and wear beards.

Most popular accounts of human prehistory suggest civilization emerged linearly—humans starting as nomadic hunter-gatherers and later moving on to farming and permanent settlements leading to villages, towns and then cities. The Dawn of Everything challenges this narrative.

Research suggests that if you are visiting a new place and it resembles one that you have already visited—the resemblance is enough to trigger a feeling of Déjà vu