A pink glow illuminates the faces of enthusiastic students as they tend to plants in specially built growing boxes on space stations. These students are the first in Australia to experience It grows outside the Earth – a school-based citizen science program run by NASA and Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden in the United States. In […]
Website traffic data typically looks like this: Ups and downs, peaks and troughs. If we do our job properly, we expect traffic to enhance over time, but it’s difficult to say whether there’s a peak or a dip to look out for in any given month. Did we do something huge and start a recent […]
Academic success is usually associated with the goals that students set. The higher and more practical the goals that a student wants to achieve, the more likely they are to achieve academic success. However, not every student can set a single goal. There is no one size fits all solution to achieving academic success. A […]
In recent months, many politicians supported connections ban social media for children under 16 in Australia. Currently, children under 13 are not allowed to apply social media. There is research to suggest that social media can be helpful for some youthful people, for example by connecting them with like-minded peers. That said, there are many […]
You do it! You practice, harvesting all those crops benefits of exercise that have been drummed into your head. So you pedal like hell or run like you’re running from a horde of zombies. You feel accomplished, on cloud nine, until… your stomach starts to turn. You might even feel dizzy. Your sense of accomplishment […]
Whether you’re novel to the gym or returning after a long break, it can be a scary place to be. There’s even a term to describe the feeling nervousness or anxiety that many people feel when they think about going to the gym: “fear of the gym.” One study found that as many as half […]
Group exercise classes are popular: Nearly 40% of regular exercisers take part in group fitness classes. Before the coronavirus pandemic, the American College of Sports Medicine predicted that group fitness classes would one of the three most important trends in the fitness industry in 2020 – for a good reason. Exercise has clear benefits for […]
For centuries, humans have been guided by various theories in the fields of nutrition, physical activity, exercise and health. In up-to-date sciences, maintaining a well-rounded lifestyle is a challenge because health has become ubiquitous. Diets and exercise programs have become highly commercialized and are aggressively promoted by the nutrition industry. It is challenging to know, […]
It should come as no surprise that some in the sports media reacted with outrage when it was revealed that the AFL body composition test removal (including skinfold testing) in the junior (under 18) talent pathway system that came into play shortly after the league moved to stop publishing player weights. ‘The world has gone […]
On December 22, 1874, the HMS Dido, carrying about 200 people, arrived in Fiji from Sydney, Australia. invisible charge. The King of Fiji and his son, who were on the ship, were infected with measles. When they disembarked, an epidemic broke out that killed 20,000 people in Fiji—up to a quarter of the population—who had […]