Bingeing on TV serials (from The Age) An article in The Age on the way in which TV serials are created to be addictive and the new style of “binge watching” due to availability via the internet …
Hungry for more: the art of addictive TV
Category: readings
5 Tips for editing your own writing
5 tips for self-editing This article contains some good hints for how to improve our own writing – and the blog site provides a good opportunity to put these hints into practice and to develop a habit of writing prolifically…
The longitudinal association of childhood school engagement with adult educational and occupational achievement
The longitudinal association of childhood school engagement with adult educational and occupational achievement: findings from an Australian national study – Abbott-Chapman – 2013 – British Educational Research Journal – Wiley Online Library. Interesting Australian study that Ben alerted me to…
Hyperbole and a Half
Hyperbole and a Half. This is a really interesting account of depression from the inside – powerful writing and possibly a useful read for psychology people 🙂
Melissa Etheridge: Jolie’s mastectomy was ‘fearful’ not ‘brave’
Angelina Jolie Breast Cancer Scare Prompts Help Line Surge. An article via The Age website portraying Jolie’s choice of mastectomy to avoid breast cancer as an act of fear, not bravery and that there were other ways of lessening the…