Why it’s time to stop lying to our ch ildren

From Gallipoli to Kokoda, stories of war heroism and mateship on the battlefield are etched into Australia's national identity.
But some of our famed military legends may be more fiction than fact.
"I think we tend to discard complicated and inconvenient truths and replace them with simplistic and comforting — sometimes allegorical — stories," says historian Mark Dapin, who is presenting an RN series investigating myths of war.
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In her quest to find meaning in her work, Shirin Sethna has gone from being a lawyer to teaching yoga and working as an election campaign organiser.
"I could have made a lot more money had I stayed in law, but having my work reflect my values is more important to me than material success," she tells This Working Life.
She's enjoyed working with like-minded people in politics, but still hasn't found that sense of purpose she craves. And Shirin's experience is far from unusual.
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Isaac Newton is a physics icon, but he was wrong.
Sure, three hundred years ago, his discoveries about gravity and the laws governing motion revolutionised the world.
And yes, sure, those discoveries led to an incredibly useful mechanistic, deterministic view of the universe – in which one thing causes another.
It's the story we all still learn in school. But Einstein proved it was wrong a century ago.
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When it was announced in October that Netflix was trialling a new variable playback option that would allow viewers to watch their titles sped up, filmmakers reacted with dismay.
Speeding through video content seems like a natural evolution in one sense; first there was speed reading, then came speed listening of podcasts and audiobooks.
But as one neuroscientist tells Stop Everything!, there’s a problem with the whole idea of being able to properly absorb content at high speed.
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