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How critical can you be in online reviews without being sued for defamation?
As summer hits, borders reopen and Australians start travelling again, Julian Dight, a legal academic at Macquarie Law School, explains to what extent you can vent your holiday frustrations.
Please explain: What is addiction and why is it so hard to kick?
As viewers around the nation tune in to the SBS documentary series Addicted Australia, Macquarie University clinical psychologist Associate Professor Melissa Norberg explains the factors behind addiction and relapse.
Please Explain: Why is Republican approval of Donald Trump so high?
Polls of Republican voters in the US have consistently shown approval ratings of greater than 80 per cent, and often into the 90s. Dr Lloyd Cox, lecturer in US Politics at Macquarie University, explains what’s behind the President’s unerring popularity.
Please explain: why do women get breast implants?
More than 20,000 women get breast implants every year even though the risks and complications are increasingly well-known. What motivates them to choose this surgery? Professor Anand Deva, Macquarie's Head of Cosmetic, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, explains.
Please explain: Why is NASA returning to the Moon?
Associate Professor Craig O’Neill, of Macquarie University's Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, explains the interconnected reasons behind the renewed lunar push.
Please explain: Can you learn resilience?
As the pandemic tests the coping skills of all of us, resilience researcher Dr Monique Crane, Senior Lecturer in Macquarie’s Department of Psychology, explains.
VIDEO: What is synaesthesia?
Why do some people, such as pop star Billie Eilish, hear colour, or taste sounds? Professor Anina Rich, from Macquarie’s Department of Cognitive Science, explains.
Why do mozzies bite some people and not others?
Dr Matthew Bulbert, entomologist and Honorary Senior Lecturer in Animal Behaviour in the Department of Biological Sciences, answers the age-old Aussie question.
Why is it so hard for so many Americans to vote?
Dr Lloyd Cox, Lecturer in United States politics at Macquarie University, explains a complex system fraught with controversy.
What's the big deal about 5G – and why are we talking about 6G already?
Macquarie telecommunications expert Dr Robert Abbas explains the differences between 4G and 5G mobile data networks, and how 6G will be super intelligent and unimaginably fast.
Will a vaccine really solve our COVID-19 woes?
It’s going to cost billions of dollars to inoculate Australians with a coronavirus vaccine, but Health Economist Dr Bonny Parkinson, from the Macquarie University Centre for the Health Economy, explains why it is unlikely to be a silver bullet.
What is toxic positivity?
The release of a tell-all Trump biography has launched a new term on the world: toxic positivity, where to recognise negative emotions is to fail. Professor Jennie Hudson, from Macquarie's Department of Psychology, explains its damaging effects.