John Elder
Put a spring in your locked-down step: How to grow veggies from scraps
Leaving aside the snow falling in the South Australian desert and other surprising places, spring is only a few weeks away –...
Makin’ tastier bacon: Liquor leftovers keep porkers placid
You might have eaten drunken chicken. What about plonkered pork? You might be doing the pig a favour if it’s been lightly...
TikTok hero swaps soft drinks for a bubbly personality: 3.7 million people cheer him on
Sick of being miserable? Then check out the life-affirming stylings of one Rohit Roy, a Melbourne man and TikTok star who has...
Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 years on, what lessons have we taken to heart?
We’ve been blowing each other up for about a thousand years now. Gunpowder packed into bamboo tubes to start with. Bamboo abandoned...
Love’s nice enough, but it’s not vital for happiness, new study finds
Married people have had a lot to be smug about. The research so far has said so. A 2010 study found that...
Heroes, zeroes and who deserves a statue: The complex writing of history
Should there be anything more to our teaching of history than a roll call of lily-white heroes and thoroughly rotten scoundrels? This...
The upside for psychopaths: How some turn out nice enough
Why aren’t all psychopaths hiding bodies in the basement or leading vulnerable innocent souls into lives of depravity? Or just routinely stealing...
Vampires could hold the secrets to eternal youth
Do police use their Tasers too often? An argument for civilian oversight
This week in the Covid Conversation podcast, we explore one not-so-simple question: How do you make a more accountable, less combative police...
Fewer miscarriages: Neanderthal gene makes for healthier pregnancies
Why are some women more prone to miscarriages and fertility problems, and others are not? Our long-dead human cousins the Neanderthals are...