Tommaso Bruni, 11 October, 2016 Tommaso is a research associate in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at King’s College in London, UK. He is interested in the ethics of clinical research, the ethics of neuroscience, and bioethics. Published in association with The London Health and Society Hub, an Aeon Partner John Smith,
Read moreBy Sarah Matthews, 12 Jul 2018. Oliver Morton-Evans has sought the services of sex workers over the years, because dating can be especially tough for anyone with a disability. Despite having tried “every dating app out there”, Oliver, 39, has never been in a long-term relationship. The Sydneysider, now a successful tech entrepreneur, said despite
Read moreBy Masako Fukui for Earshot, 6 Dec 2016. When 88-year-old author Doreen Wendt-Weir began interviewing people for her book Sex in your Seventies, she changed her name to the more glamorous sounding Evangeline to help her overcome her “conservative, reserved, somewhat timid” nature. Perhaps more importantly, the less stodgy persona also helped loosen the tongues
Read moreBy Virginia Small, 13 May 2016, 9:34am More than 30,000 Australian children may now be severely obese, a national study into childhood health has found. Researchers said their findings suggested they had underestimated the problem, and its extent may be even greater than figures show. “The numbers on how many Australian children have severe obesity
Read moreNick Kowalski , Paleohacks With all of the varieties of personalities and unique tastes in a partnership it seems that finding one secret to a lasting marriage may be an eluding chase. Can anyone really know for sure what will guarantee a happy marriage? Life is dynamic, minds change, and after all, there is free
Read moreBy Louise Merrillees . Updated 4 Apr 2016, 7:56am FOMO, FOBO, and NoMo are among a growing list of acronyms relating to people’s fear of not being able to check their social media feed, and the issue has psychologists scrambling to keep up. “Every time you have a spare moment, people are checking their Facebook
Read moreFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Psychological trauma is a type of damage to the psyche that occurs as a result of a severely distressing event. Trauma is often the result of an overwhelming amount of stress that exceeds one’s ability to cope, or integrate the emotions involved with that experience. A traumatic event involves one
Read moreBy Brendan Trembath, posted 15 Apr 2016, 1:06pm In a bold attempt to get more younger people into cinemas, one of America’s largest cinema chains is considering allowing customers to use mobile phones during films. Concerned film critics are likening it to the end of civilisation. The idea comes from AMC’s new chief executive, Adam
Read moreABC Radio Sydney, by Amanda Hoh, 12 Jul 2017. As Lucas Cheang looks through photos in his scrapbook, he points to one of his mother Tina lying in bed and says simply: “This is when mummy died.” It’s a heartbreaking sentence to hear from a six-year-old. When Tina was diagnosed with secondary breast cancer in
Read moreJoan and Frank come to me to discuss their fifteen year old daughter Mary. She was beginning to experiment with cannabis, and they wanted advice about how to cope and stop her experimentation before it led to something worse. They agreed that they were hoping that she would become an independent, responsible adult. They also
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