If the promise of endorphins aren’t enough to get you moving, how about knowing the health of the planet can be helped by you going for a run?
Words by Samantha Allemann
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As if sinking cities, scorching heatwaves and hailstones the size of golf balls weren’t bad enough, it seems climate change has another unwanted gift for life on earth – the climate cockblock.
Words by Dr Claire Asher
From kimchi to mead, humans have been fermenting for almost as long as we’ve been making food. But though the process is ancient, fermenting techniques established thousands of years ago are still being honed and studied today, and some are still being unearthed.
Words by Renata Carli
You might have heard that gut health can influence anything from asthma to IBS. But a recent flurry of research suggests the gut microbiome has an impact on mood, paving the way to treat mental health with probiotics.
Words by Hollen Singleton
To what extent do we have an ethical or moral obligation to relieve animal suffering caused by global warming?
Words by Steven Nadler
What happens when we leave kids to their own devices?
Words by Dr Nachshon (Sean) Goltz
The BBC and Internet Age Media are researching how to teach skills in self-control in the age of device and online-led media. Annelise Keestra was invited to go along for the ride.
Words by Annelise Keestra
Helen Callanan has been working with people approaching the end of their life for over 30 years.
Words by Nikki Stefanoff
Forget rigorous meditation, technology might be the 21st century’s answer to mental liberation.
Words by Mathew Bate
We take a look at the state of dementia nationally and learn more about this Australian first.
Words by Lisa Cugnetto
Could something as simple as an app help reduce food insecurity and hunger in remote and rural Australia?
Words by Maddie Lakos
Your postcode may provide more information about your health than your genetics.
Words by Dr Alexander Bowden
Food is more than a nutritional necessity. The stuff we throw on our barbies and dish up to loved ones is full of nourishing memories and stories.
Words by Isabelle Oderberg
This week we give you a sneak peak into Issue 2. Dr Sandro Demaio talks to Jamie Oliver about trust.
Interview by Dr Sandro Demaio
Since the federal government approved the manufacture of hemp seed for human consumption last November, Australian interest is high. According to one young Tasmanian hemp seed farmer and aspiring health entrepreneur, we should be utilising the ancient, medicinal properties of the hemp plant, not simply adding it to our granola.
Words by Melissa Howard
Bea Johnson is the fairy godmother of the modern zero waste movement; for the past several years her family’s entire yearly waste has fitted in a small glass jar. Her seminal book, ‘Zero Waste Home’, published in 2013, has inspired millions of people around the world to minimise their waste and is now printed in over 20 different languages. The Source Bulk Foods recently brought Bea out to Australia for a week of talks and presentations. She managed to speak to us just before she was due on stage about how zero waste works and how it’s given her a new sense of abundance, harmony and happiness.
Interview by Mathew Bate
Earlier this year we caught up with Dr. Gopi Krishna Vijaya. He holds a PhD in physics and has devoted most of his life to the relationship between humans and the development of technology. He had just flown over from the US to run the Moral Technologies Forum (organised by Seed Australia) in Melbourne on morals, technology and how to be a good human in our digital era. Covering the historical development of technology, the way we think and modern education, Dr. Gopi Krishna Vijaya discusses the intrapersonal relationship between humans and the technologies that we have created.
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With research showing that Virtual Reality headsets are helping chronically ill children experience less anxiety and less pain during their hospital procedures, we immerse ourselves into the world of VR at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and take a look at what they’re doing to help those fighting cancer.
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‘Ethical’ fashion is on trend. But is it even possible for fashion – an entire industry based on selling us new versions of ourselves every season – to be ethical? We speak with the designers trying to make the change.
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