Over the last few months I have tried something new: writing advice. Now as you know, the worst kind of vice is advice, but fools rush in where the Devil (in the guise of John Milton) feared to tread. Enough…
Evidence that quitting Facebook for four weeks delivers long-term benefits. This article was originally published on OneZero at Medium. My screen time was up last week. Again. Along with much of humanity, staying home to avoid the coronavirus has me…
The most common serious pregnancy complication arises due to an ancient conflict between mothers and fathers. Itcould have ended badly in so many ways. My friend, let’s call her Amy, in vibrant mid-twenties health, could not have been more ready…
Why are beards resurging in 2020? History teaches us that men cooperate best if they shave. They stop shaving when times get tough. Two weeks into work-from-home isolation and a trend has slid into my Zoom meetings. Men I have…
Many will resume shaking hands, but many people will appreciate having a legitimate reason to keep their hands to themselves. Coronavirus has offered precious few moments of comic relief. Most involved people catching themselves in the moment of committing to…
Follow these tips to prepare talks that intrigue and entertain. Then apply the lessons back to all your writing. Rob Brooks Apr 27 · 7 min read The features that make a great talk are mostly the same as the features that define…
As the world rides out the COVID-19 pandemic at home, high-tech is upgrading sex via artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and social media. In the next pandemic, sex and intimacy will be very different.
These are the live graphs to accompany an article I wrote in Medium, on “What we are searching for, in isolation?”. Searching ourselves Playing with whom / what It isn’t sport Whatever it is we are searching for, it isn’t…
Compared with our closest relatives, the common chimpanzee and the bonobo, humans are pretty good at focusing exclusively on one mate at a time.
Just how exclusively, however, is the subject of endless tabloid gossip, culture-war sabre-rattling, and scientific debate. The answer seemed to be that most people are exclusive most of the time, but new evidence has thrown the question wide open again.
In addition to my research and teaching as an evolutionary biologist, about 20% of my job involves another role: Academic Lead of the UNSW Grand Challenges and Thought Leadership Program. One of the many exciting things we do involves discovering…