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If you and your colleagues use standing desks at work, you might wonder how they became so popular. Catriona Bonfiglioli and Josephine Chau say the media is partly to blame. Standing desks were oversold as the solution to inactivity at work thanks to misleading reporting on the dangers of sitting, and no reporting of the commercial interests behind them.

And nuclear weapons have been in the news a lot lately thanks to a series of missile and warhead tests from North Korea. But what’s actually going on in those warheads that makes them so powerful? In our new video, nuclear physicist Kaitlin Cook explains the difference between fusion and fission, and why observers are concerned about North Korea’s apparently rapid progress.

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Media reports failed to mention limits to evidence in new guidelines about sitting and moving at work, and missed commercial interests that were initially not disclosed. Kennyrhoads/Wikimedia Commons

How the media oversold standing desks as a fix for inactivity at work

Catriona Bonfiglioli, University of Technology Sydney; Josephine Chau, University of Sydney

Here's how reporting of the world's first specific advice on reducing inactivity at work has overplayed the role of standing desks.

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