Banning kids from social media? There’s a better way
The Australian government’s plan to ban kids from social media overestimates the tech available to limit access and overlooks the benefits
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Ancient teens were full of existential angst too
What you’re going to do with your life is one of the big questions young people grapple with. But rest assured, some of history’s greats went through it too
Big tech and porn platforms are the real perpetrators behind 'sickening' deepfakes
The AI-generated child sexual abuse deepfakes at a Melbourne school were created by a teenage boy, but we can’t ignore the real perpetrators
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Scaring the daylights out of our body clocks
Our circadian rhythms refuse to be ruled by daylight savings, which is why things may still feel off-kilter a week after the switch
Melbourne’s pollen riddle
While most of us are familiar with grass pollen and how it triggers hay fever and asthma, researchers find ‘other’ pollen can actually be more abundant in the air
Explaining Melbourne’s crazy but predictable weather
Melbourne’s weather is renowned for its variability, but it is still predictable, explained partly by its position on a large hot continent close to the cold Southern Ocean
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