When fresh out of university, I got a job as a geologist, and one day it was my turn to be ‘on duty’ in my organisation. This meant answering questions…
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Often you will hear Australia referred to as the world’s largest island, or conversely, its smallest continent, or sometimes, the island continent. Which is it? Most people have no idea…
Often you will hear climate change deniers or other anti-science buffoons saying, as if it was a valid argument, that scientists thought the earth was flat for hundreds of years….
Often in the newspaper you will see it stated that some scientific theory has been proven. That is impossible. Scientific theories cannot be proven, only disproven or shown to be…
Researchers from the Australian National University and Monash University have determined that listening to music decreased inattentional blindness1. Inattentional blindness is also known as perceptual blindness, and is a psychological…
If you happen to live in the Australian Capital Territory1, you live in a relatively small enclave excised from New South Wales. It is a subcrescentic area of land with…
No, this is not an article on the study of the undead, it is about science which gets a run in the newspapers and on television, but has been or…
In helping to understand the concepts here, we have to understand a few terms used. For starters, the word ‘cognition’ is the set of mental abilities or processes that allow…