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SOCIAL CONNECTIONS

Look up #happycity and here’s what you’ll find

The same things tend to make people happy-such as nature and colour. (Jardin des Curiosités, Lyon, France) Léonard Cotte/Unsplash City planners and designers want to...

Listen To Older Voices : Charles Pallaghy – Part 1

Welcome to Listen To Older Voices a program produced by Rob Greaves for Uniting Melba and podcast through the Toorak Times and Tagg. Listen To...

The ‘right’ age to start school varies for each child

The right age for your child to start school will vary, depending on their readiness, your family situation and the readiness of the school...

Listen To Older Voices : Pat Smith – Part 3

Welcome to Listen To Older Voices, a program produced by Rob Greaves for Uniting Melba and podcast through the Toorak Times and Tagg. Listen...

To design safer parks for women, city planners must listen to their stories

Eurydice Dixon was murdered in a busy Melbourne park - how can we make these spaces safer for women? DAVID CROSLING/AAP Image The rape and murder...

Life in a herd – and why in health watching symptoms is easy, but finding causes is hard

This piece from two science communication experts explores the notion of population health – what is it, and why does it even matter? Everyone knows...

Apple acknowledges the iKid generation at its developer conference with new parental controls

Apple chief executive Tim Cook addresses developers at the Worldwide Developers Conference 2018 in San Jose, California on June 4. Apple Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) kicked off...

Trolls, fanboys and lurkers: understanding online commenting culture shows us how to improve it

The way user interfaces are designed can impact the kind of community that gathers. Shutterstock Do you call that a haircut? I hope you didn’t...

Food sharing with a 21st-century twist – and Melbourne’s a world leader

People have always shared food, but digital communications technology is driving a renaissance of food-sharing networks. Josephine Lim/CrowdSpark/AAP Food sharing is experiencing a renaissance in...

The public barbie, an Aussie icon frozen in time

A public barbecue in Lyndhurst, New South Wales, does the job but could be so much better. Mattinbgn/Wikimedia On Boxing Day, Australia Day, birthdays and...

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