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It’s that time of year when we all start to make promises to ourselves about how this year it’ll be different. This is the year you’ll get serious about your health, save some money and cut that bad habit, right? But when it comes to sticking to new year’s resolutions, most of us need all the help we can get.
Today on The Conversation’s podcast Trust Me, I’m An Expert, researchers share their insights into how to make a change – big or small – using evidence from the world of academia. Happy listening, and good luck with those new year’s resolutions!
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Ready for all the research-backed tips and tricks for setting a goal and meeting it?
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Sunanda Creagh, The Conversation; Dilpreet Kaur, The Conversation
Today, experts will be sharing with us insights into how to make a change in your life -- big or small -- using evidence from the world of academic research.
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Mountains keep growing and growing and growing for many millions of years until they are so heavy that they can no longer grow taller, only wider.
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Patrice Rey, University of Sydney
When I was little, geologists worked out Earth's surface was made of pieces, like a giant puzzle. Those pieces, called “tectonic plates”, move and bump into each other and mountains form.
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Health + Medicine
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Enzo Palombo, Swinburne University of Technology
Did you forget to put the leftovers away? If it's only an hour or two, that's OK, but as the temperature drops under 60 degrees, the risk of bacterial growth – and food poisoning – increases.
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Arts + Culture
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Jane Lydon, University of Western Australia
One of the 'first white women' to travel in the Northern Territory, Elsie Masson's attitudes to the Aboriginal people she met expressed the contradictions of racial thought at this time.
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Business + Economy
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Peter Martin, The Conversation
The Conversation played host to really important new ideas in 2018. Some will take years to develop. Others will never come to fruition. But they're important.
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