Gap or trap? Confidence backlash is the real problem for women
Rebecca Mitchell, University of Newcastle
Women continue to earn substantially less than men and occupy a comparatively smaller proportion of upper management positions. A new...
Love problems? There’s a pill for that, but Plato offers a wiser cure
Laura D'Olimpio, University of Notre Dame Australia and Richard Paul Hamilton, University of Notre Dame Australia
We take pills and potions for everything from a...
Quit sugar, go paleo, embrace ‘clean food’: the power of celebrity nutrition
Rebecca Charlotte Reynolds
Celebrities of nutrition evoke feelings of awe, envy and adulation in many of us. While the Gwyneth Paltrows of the group first...
Why placebos for chemotherapy side effects are hard to swallow
Nial Wheate, University of Sydney and Betty Chaar, University of Sydney
It’s unthinkable to give a placebo to someone to treat their cancer, but could...
Fashion bloggers force journalists to up their game
Josephine Collins, University of the Arts London
As London Fashion Week wows the front rows, the bloggers are in focus again. These style mavens are...
Starting to thin out? Hair loss doesn’t have to lead to baldness
Rodney Sinclair, University of Melbourne
Hair loss is no longer an inevitable march to baldness. Medical advances over recent decades mean male hair loss can...
Lips are the most exposed erogenous zone, which makes kissing feel very good
Sheril Kirshenbaum, University of Texas at Austin
Scientists in the Netherlands have reported that we share about 80m bacteria during a passionate ten-second kiss; a...
It turns out male sexuality is just as fluid as female sexuality
Jane Ward, University of California, Riverside
If women can kiss women and still be straight, what about men?
Some scholars have argued that female sexual desires...
