Your skin can’t tell the difference if fragrance was created in a lab or extracted from a flower, writes Larissa Fedunik
“Nothing is black and white when it comes to fragrances…of course, synthetic fragrances are bad. Fragrances derived from essential oils can be wonderful. Fragrance isn’t categorically bad. I would really implore you guys to not be afraid of essential oil-derived fragrances.”
That’s Brooke DeVard of the delightful Naked Beauty Podcast…
The festivities for Pride Week are in full swing, but many of us don’t know much about the historical background behind the celebration. This gives us the timely opportunity to learn more about New South Wales’ rich LGBTIQ history, including the history of Mardi Gras.
Let’s pay tribute to the…
Travel and adventure go hand in hand (although most of us are only dreaming of travelling right now).
In literature, plenty of travel and adventure novels describe a journey or quest through unfamiliar territory: The Odyssey*, Don Quixote, Gulliver’s Travels, The Hobbit, On the Road (just to name a few)…
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Let’s talk emotions.
Unhappiness. Anger. Envy. Guilt.
Joy. Gratitude. Fulfilment.
Do you categorise the first group as negative, and the second group as positive?
Do you aim to maximise positive emotions, and minimise negative ones? Do you express them equally? Is happiness something you strive for?
It’s a veritable Pandora’s…
Innovation. Must-have. Revolution. These are words that get thrown about a lot in the tech sphere, and the land of internet-connected devices (aka the Internet of Things, or IoT) is no exception. But what happens when connectivity adds approximately zero value?
Redundancy doesn’t seem to be barrier for the manufacturers…
The past decade has seen an explosion in research into how we can maximise our downtime to improve our wellbeing, reduce stress and even increase our productivity.
In the spirit of scientific self-improvement, here’s a (relaxing) stroll through some established and emerging areas of research into downtime.
Downtime: getting down to business?
A compilation of science stories of 2020 (very) loosely inspired by the carol.
The 12 Days of Christmas has been described as the holiday’s most annoying carol — bah, humbug!
The song may or may not be a coded, Catholic mnemonic that could be sung around Protestants without fear of persecution — an enticing, but disputed history.
In the spirit of Christmas, what about…
Roughly the shape and size of a brick, the energy storage blocks developed by Australian research start-up MGA Thermal can be stacked and scaled to store millions of kilowatt hours of energy. …
Does anyone really know how hyaluronic acid works?
If you grew up reading fashion and beauty magazines in the 1990s like I did, you’ll be familiar with print advertisements that looked a little something like this:
Yes, alright, this particular advertisement is from 1909, but the marketing strategies of the…
Chemistry is often accredited with fostering the development of civilizations. Early chemists were responsible for developing the fields of metallurgy, pharmacology and that obsolete brand of science, alchemy. In fact, a distinction between chemistry and alchemy was only established in the 17th century, when Robert Boyle described chemistry as applying…
