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The idea that Gen Z is lazy misreads the data: full-time workers aged 20 to 24 averaged 40.5 hours a week, and visible enthusiasm...

The 74% figure is real, but it does not mean what the lazy-Gen-Z argument needs it to mean. ResumeBuilder reported in 2023 that 74% of managers and business leaders in its poll considered Gen Z more difficult to work...

Adults who take the same walk at the same time every evening may not be creatures of rigid habit; they may have found that...

The evening walk can look like the smallest possible ritual. Same route, same hour, same slightly worn shoes. Neighbours begin to recognise the walker in the same way they recognise the streetlights coming on. Research does not prove that repeating...

How CSIRO’s ON Accelerate helped turn these Aussie healthtech startups into commercial successes

It’s fair to say Australia is stacked with world-class researchers with big ideas. We have a track record of scientific breakthroughs, especially in healthcare innovations like the cervical cancer vaccine and the cochlear implant. But turning promising discoveries into...

The NSW treasurer is banking on a $440 million windfall from EV drivers unless Albanese steps in

Electric car owners in one state will pay a fee for every kilometre they drive within a year unless the federal government intervenes to create a national law.  NSW Treasurer Daniel Mookhey revealed the state’s plans at an inquiry into...

Education is one of the strongest predictors of worldly success, yet economists still cannot agree whether school builds the ability that earns the reward,...

Get a good education and you will do well in life. It is possibly the most repeated piece of advice there is, handed down by parents and governments alike, and the broad data does back it up. What the...

Interview studies of remote workers who travel solo consistently surface loneliness and fear of missing out as recurring themes, while separate research finds solo...

Solo travel and remote work have become closely linked in the last decade, and a body of research on the people actually living that way, rather than the version of it shown on social media, points to a specific,...

A 25-year Northwestern study of people over 80 with memory as sharp as adults decades younger found that diet and exercise habits varied widely...

Some people in their eighties score on memory tests as well as adults twenty to thirty years younger, a pattern researchers at Northwestern University have spent a quarter of a century trying to understand. The programme, which coined the...

A 2018 Nature study tracking 30,000 artists, film directors, and scientists found that each career’s most acclaimed work clusters into a single unpredictable hot...

There is no validated checklist of personal signs that reliably predicts who will go on to succeed after a period of feeling stuck. Anyone offering one is working from intuition, not from a body of research that has actually...

A 2014 study had adults in their sixties learn quilting or digital photography for 16 hours a week, and found real memory gains that...

The claim that music lessons make children cognitively sharper across the board has circulated for decades, and it is one of the more thoroughly tested claims in this area of psychology. A 2017 meta-analysis by Giovanni Sala and Fernand...

The link between routine and success is stranger than it looks: studies find the people who reach their goals lean less on willpower than...

The picture most of us carry of a disciplined, successful person is a picture of someone straining. Jaw set, resisting the biscuit, powering through the thing they do not feel like doing. Success, in that image, is willpower applied...
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Integrated BagLev hooks keep Peak Design’s City Line crossbody bag and backpack off the dirty ground. | Photo by...
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