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To What Degree Will Universities Be Relevant In Future?

Universities were created in a period of time when access to information was virtually non-existent.

07/06/2017 10:32 AM AEST

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My Friend Asked If The Sisterhood Exists. I Couldn't Say Yes

What happened to backing your fellow woman?

24/04/2017 3:44 PM AEST

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I Propose More Women Get Down On Bended Knee

I've been proposed to, friends around me have been proposed to, I've watched umpteenth proposals on television in romantic comedies and dramas, and never once have I thought to myself: "Gee... This is sexist."

14/06/2016 3:00 PM AEST

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Social Media Addiction Is Not The End Of The Story

We curate the content of our lives, weeding out the ordinary, boring or too sad bits and generate an actual narrative around our lives. One that gives us purpose and meaning. We have an actual story! It all means something!

29/05/2016 6:06 AM AEST

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I'll Tell You The Secret: Manifesting Is A Con

If we were manifesting health, or authenticity, a real sense of identity, then I would be all for it. It makes sense, after all, those are the core blocks of life. But instead we're trapped manifesting products and events consumer culture told us we wanted.

25/05/2016 1:23 PM AEST

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Admit It, You Love To Hate The Kardashians

If there aren't a couple of us watching their blockbuster series, following their instagram accounts, or downloading their apps -- who are those hundreds of millions of people?

28/04/2016 6:37 AM AEST

Does The Quest For Happiness Or Identity Drive Our Consumer Culture?

I often wonder what makes us deliriously want to consume. Why do we feel the inexplicable urge to purchase a whole heap of possessions and surround ourselves by them? We buy products and then smear th...

22/04/2016 4:50 PM AEST

Can Fruit Be Ethnic? Easter And Other Cultural Appropriations

Earlier on this week (let's be honest, yesterday) I made a desperate, last-minute beeline to the post office to send Easter gifts off to my various nephews. Once I got there, I realised I hadn't purch...

24/03/2016 3:35 PM AEDT

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Does The Gym Gear Make The Gym Goer?

The apparel required to attend your average gym class is second to none -- next level sort of dressing. Ladies and gentlemen sashay into the gym like they're walking a gym-centric Versace runway in Milan.

13/03/2016 6:21 AM AEDT

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Are We Living in 1984, Even Though It's 2016?

What is most interesting about our compromised personal data, and the key point that Orwell missed, is that we give it up so freely. We fling our data out there like caution to the wind because, who cares right? It's out there anyway.

07/03/2016 1:06 PM AEDT

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Is Narcissism The New Normal?

Are we all just a little bit obsessed with ourselves? Will we too, like the original Narcissus, become so fixated with our appearance and the perfect selfie that we'll just wither away and die?

29/02/2016 11:43 AM AEDT

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Is Our Recipe For Happiness Making Us Sad?

For the past 50 years or so, the favoured mantra among the mindfulness and wellness community has been 'live in the moment'. 'Be present' we're told. But what if they've got it wrong?

07/02/2016 6:14 AM AEDT

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Premo Ergo Sum: I Click, Therefore I Am

If Descartes were alive in the 21st century he might have asked: "Do we exist at all if we don't exist on social media?" I click, therefore I am. I post, therefore I am. I don't post or click, therefore I am not.

29/01/2016 5:05 AM AEDT

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