Science & Health - Rationale Magazine

Cristian Apetrei 28/08/2022

Since health officials confirmed the first COVID-19 cases, misinformation has spread just as quickly as the virus. Social media may ...

Nicholas Van Dam 20/08/2022

Meditation and mindfulness practices in Western nations are booming. One report estimates that 55 million Americans engaged in meditation in ...

Jennifer Philip 30/07/2022

If ever there is a time when you really do need to see a doctor in person, as opposed to ...

Ronli Sifris 21/05/2022

Voluntary assisted dying (VAD) has been legal in countries such as Switzerland and the Netherlands for more than a decade. ...

Kathryn Davidson 07/05/2022

As the need to cut greenhouse gas emissions becomes increasingly urgent, governments of all levels, as well as private businesses ...

David Caldicott 02/05/2022

Days out from the event, festival goers for Canberra’s Groovin the Moo festival were told the event would no longer ...

Carrick Ryan 29/04/2022

It started with a tweet. On 14 January 2020, as the world waited anxiously for news about the emerging virus ...

Phillip Hoglin 25/04/2022

While the nation takes stock to remember our Anzacs this week, we need to take a moment to think about ...

Grace Wangge 02/04/2022

Costly delays in reporting and responding helped COVID-19 spread. But the failures that saw it become a pandemic were of ...

Richard Lugg 30/03/2022

In his classic book Straight and Crooked Thinking – now in its fifth edition (2011) – Robert H. Thouless describes many ...

Christobel Saunders 13/03/2022

The founding father of Federation Henry Parkes declared in 1890 that Australia should “embrace the power that is conferred by ...

Dan Lubman 11/03/2022

The global ‘war on drugs’ is one of the single-most catastrophic public policy failures in history. Now one Victorian MP ...