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The internet and social media has been a double edged sword for news and journalism.
It's given a voice to communities that weren't often heard in the mainstream and enabled individuals and small collectives to report on news that would never have been covered otherwise.
But a lot of what you see on social media isn't actually true and the algorithms that control our feeds have tended to prioritise engagement over accuracy.
With many children and teenagers getting their news from social media, is it time for media literacy to be added to the school curriculum?
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The tragic statistics forming the basis of the youth mental health crisis can all be traced back to one moment - the invention of the smartphone and the emergence of the 'selfie based social media ecosystem' in 2012. That's the argument at the centre of social psychologist Jonathan Haidt's groundbreaking new book ‘the Anxious Generation’.
With the use of extensive research, Haidt outlines why social media is an ‘inherently dangerous consumer product’ akin to smoking. But he also lays out a detailed blueprint for how parents can take childhood back for their kids.
Guest:
Professor Jonathan Haidt, social psychologist at New York University and author of the Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
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At ten-years-old, when Aalia Elachi's smartphone broke and her parents decided not to replace it, she was devastated.
But she's now fourteen and has loved the social-media-free life her parents have given her.
What motivated the Elachis' decision and how are other parents around the country following their lead?
Guests:
Dany Elachi, Sydney father of five and co-founder of the Heads Up alliance, a grassroots organisation supporting parents who want their kids to be smart-phone and social media free, with more than 5000 followers
Aalia Elachi, 14-year-old who doesn't have a smartphone and isn't on social media
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You have recently started job sharing which entails also sharing a desk. But what happens when you job share partner helps themselves to the precious cashmere scarf you leave on the back of your seat.
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Our relationship with our own mortality is perhaps one of the most challenging relationships we have in our lives, so how do we feel ok about it?
Dr Leah Kaminsky and Dr Chris Cheers join Beverley Wang to discuss what underpins our fear of death, how we might come to cultivate better acceptance of it, and how that acceptance could in turn actually help us lead richer lives.
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One in three of Australia's four million children are struggling to read proficiently, according to the Grattan Institute. That's a shocking figure, and one that understandably worries many parents, grandparents and guardians.
Anne McLeish and Amy Haywood discuss how adults can play a role in supporting kids' education in the home, and what are the best evidence-based ways to teach kids to read.
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Much of Australia is having a cold snap right now — with sub-zero temperatures in six different states and territories.
And it can be very nice in those times to curl up in a warm room with a hot cuppa, and forget about the world outside.
Unfortunately, many Australian homes barely keep the cold outside, and that affects our energy bills, which are already high.
Professor Emma Baker discusses what can we do to warm up our homes - both this winter and into the future?
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Mid-year can be a tricky time: the weather is colder, the days are shorter, and the summer holidays can feel like they're a long way away. Is there a way we can better support ourselves and those around us from burnout?
Dr Charlotte Keating is a clinical psychologist with a PhD in Neuroscience and she joined Hilary Harper to discuss the evolving field of research around what constitutes burnout, its impact and what we can do to protect ourselves from getting it.
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Parisa Sekandari came into the world under Taliban rule in Afghanistan.
Some two decades later, the second time they rose to power, her life would dramatically change overnight.
Now a Refugee Advocate and co-creator of the collectives 'Amplify Afghan Women' and 'Community for Humanity', Parisa is one of the 'refugee heroes' fronting the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre's annual telethon coming up on World Refugee Day, Thursday 20th June.
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We often think of placebos in a medical context, as control measures for testing the effectiveness of drugs. But can placebos also influence how how things taste, or even how effective certain over-the-counter medicines are?
Professor Joel Pearson shares the ways in which placebos harness the power of our brain's own belief.
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A new family of drugs are causing alarm among medical professionals.
Up to fifty times stronger than fentanyl, nitazenes are synthetic opioids that have been detected in Australia in recreational drugs like MDMA and ketamine.
Experts are warning harm minimisation policies, including pill testing, need to be put in place now to protect unsuspecting drug users.
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As the world becomes increasingly digitised, writing by hand can seem totally archaic. But research shows that, putting pen to paper brings far more cognitive benefit than is often assumed. What might happen if handwriting becomes a lost art?
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Google recently rolled out an experimental search feature, using AI to summarise results. And while it's generally very effective, sometimes it recommended putting glue in your pizza base.
Legal research tools like Westlaw have implemented AI into their products, but a recent Stanford research paper found that up to a third of the results returned by the new tools were hallucinations.
These powerful tools are becoming increasingly common, but, like any tool, they have their strengths and weaknesses.
Dr Ali Intezari and Professor Toby Walsh examine how AI should they used, and what happens when we ask them to do more than we should?
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A study by E61 found that more than 20% of Australian workers are working under a non-compete clause — and that's everything from senior executives to hairdressers to fast food workers.
The Assistant Treasurer, Andrew Leigh, has put non-compete clauses on the national agenda in Australia, and the Free Trade Commission has recently banned them in the US.
Charles Power and Angela Knox discuss why they have become so common and what happens if they go away.
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When we're young, friends are everything and making new friends can be as easy and simple as having a shared interest. But as we grow older we seem to shed friends, and getting them back can be challenging.
Dr Zoë Krupka , psychotherapist and clinical supervisor joins Beverley Wang to step through how to make and maintain social connections as we age.
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Most of us know how to reduce our risk of developing heart disease, diabetes or ding from Covid.
But with new research from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare highlighting the most common causes of death in Australia, we look at the lesser known non-medical factors that influence health outcomes.
Known as psycho-social factors or social determinants, these are the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age and they can have significant implications for health.
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Hitting puberty is challenging enough, but 13 per cent of Australians experience early puberty (for females, this means getting their period as young as eight), and new research shows there are unique brain changes for this cohort making them particularly vulnerable to mental health symptoms.
Dr Nandi Vijayakumar, Professor Susan Sawyer, and Olivia Bellas look at how parents and schools can better support them.
- Visa fler
