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A tiny needle-patch tracked my blood sugar. This is what I learnt

A “healthy” chicken sandwich led my blood sugar to soar, but this is what happened when I ate a chocolate bar at 3pm.

17.02.2026 80

The Age

Liam Mannix

A tiny needle-patch tracked my blood sugar. This is what I learnt

A “healthy” chicken sandwich led my blood sugar to soar, but this is what happened when I ate a chocolate bar at 3pm.

17.02.2026 30

WA Today

Liam Mannix

A tiny needle-patch tracked my blood sugar. This is what I learnt

A “healthy” chicken sandwich led my blood sugar to soar, but this is what happened when I ate a chocolate bar at 3pm.

17.02.2026 30

The Sydney Morning Herald

Liam Mannix

A tiny needle-patch tracked my blood sugar. This is what I learnt

A “healthy” chicken sandwich led my blood sugar to soar, but this is what happened when I ate a chocolate bar at 3pm.

17.02.2026 10

Brisbane Times

Liam Mannix

Pushing up the price of heroin cut crime. Why isn’t the same thing happening with tobacco?

A new paper to be published this month uses Australia’s 2001 “heroin drought” as a natural experiment to answer that question. The answer has...

03.02.2026 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Liam Mannix

Pushing up the price of heroin cut crime. Why isn’t the same thing happening with tobacco?

A new paper to be published this month uses Australia’s 2001 “heroin drought” as a natural experiment to answer that question. The answer has...

03.02.2026 7

WA Today

Liam Mannix

Pushing up the price of heroin cut crime. Why isn’t the same thing happening with tobacco?

A new paper to be published this month uses Australia’s 2001 “heroin drought” as a natural experiment to answer that question. The answer has...

03.02.2026 30

The Age

Liam Mannix

Pushing up the price of heroin cut crime. Why isn’t the same thing happening with tobacco?

A new paper to be published this month uses Australia’s 2001 “heroin drought” as a natural experiment to answer that question. The answer has...

03.02.2026 7

Brisbane Times

Liam Mannix

Is my chocolate snack making me hungrier?

Why do I feel more hungry if I eat a chocolate snack in the afternoon than if I eat nothing at all? Here’s the reason.

25.11.2025 7

WA Today

Liam Mannix

Is my chocolate snack making me hungrier?

Why do I feel more hungry if I eat a chocolate snack in the afternoon than if I eat nothing at all? Here’s the reason.

25.11.2025 7

The Sydney Morning Herald

Liam Mannix

Is my chocolate snack making me hungrier?

Why do I feel more hungry if I eat a chocolate snack in the afternoon than if I eat nothing at all? Here’s the reason.

25.11.2025 8

The Age

Liam Mannix

Is my chocolate snack making me hungrier?

Why do I feel more hungry if I eat a chocolate snack in the afternoon than if I eat nothing at all? Here’s the reason.

25.11.2025 9

Brisbane Times

Liam Mannix

The truth about UFOs and Bigfoot, as we enter a new ‘dark age’ of misinformation

When The Skeptic was launched in 1981, it made Australia a world leader in debunking misinformation. Now, after four decades of keeping the psychics,...

11.11.2025 10

WA Today

Liam Mannix

The truth about UFOs and Bigfoot, as we enter a new ‘dark age’ of misinformation

When The Skeptic was launched in 1981, it made Australia a world leader in debunking misinformation. Now, after four decades of keeping the psychics,...

11.11.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Liam Mannix

The truth about UFOs and Bigfoot, as we enter a new ‘dark age’ of misinformation

When The Skeptic was launched in 1981, it made Australia a world leader in debunking misinformation. Now, after four decades of keeping the psychics,...

11.11.2025 10

The Age

Liam Mannix

The truth about UFOs and Bigfoot, as we enter a new ‘dark age’ of misinformation

A few months ago, the last edition of The Skeptic rolled off the presses. After 44 years of keeping the psychics, astrologers and homeopaths honest,...

11.11.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Liam Mannix

Most parents skip the flu jab for their children. Is that a bad idea?

The flu vaccine is so strongly recommended for children under five, the government makes it free. So why are vaccination rates against the flu...

12.08.2025 5

WA Today

Liam Mannix

Most parents skip the flu jab for their children. Is that a bad idea?

The flu vaccine is so strongly recommended for children under five, the government makes it free. So why are vaccination rates against the flu...

12.08.2025 7

The Sydney Morning Herald

Liam Mannix

Most parents skip the flu jab for their children. Is that a bad idea?

The flu vaccine is so strongly recommended for children under five, the government makes it free. So why are vaccination rates against the flu...

12.08.2025 10

The Age

Liam Mannix

Most parents skip the flu jab for their children. Is that a bad idea?

The flu vaccine is so strongly recommended for children under five, the government makes it free. So why are vaccination rates against the flu...

12.08.2025 9

Brisbane Times

Liam Mannix

CD96: How Mark Smyth hoped to build a cancer-buster

Serious concerns have been raised over Smyth’s CD96 work, which formed the foundation for a cancer drug now being tested in humans.

29.07.2025 9

WA Today

Liam Mannix

CD96: How Mark Smyth hoped to build a cancer-buster

Serious concerns have been raised over Smyth’s CD96 work, which formed the foundation for a cancer drug now being tested in humans.

29.07.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Liam Mannix

CD96: How Mark Smyth hoped to build a cancer-buster

Serious concerns have been raised over Smyth’s CD96 work, which formed the foundation for a cancer drug now being tested in humans.

29.07.2025 9

The Age

Liam Mannix

CD96: How Mark Smyth hoped to build a cancer-buster

Serious concerns have been raised over Smyth’s CD96 work, which formed the foundation for a cancer drug now being tested in humans.

29.07.2025 8

Brisbane Times

Liam Mannix

There’s a new app to spot sports concussions. Does it work?

What if we could diagnose concussion with something we all carry: a smartphone? “This is the holy grail of concussion diagnosis,” the Australian...

08.07.2025 7

WA Today

Liam Mannix

There’s a new app to spot sports concussions. Does it work?

What if we could diagnose concussion with something we all carry: a smartphone? “This is the holy grail of concussion diagnosis,” the Australian...

08.07.2025 9

The Sydney Morning Herald

Liam Mannix

There’s a new app to spot sports concussions. Does it work?

What if we could diagnose concussion with something we all carry: a smartphone? “This is the holy grail of concussion diagnosis,” the Australian...

08.07.2025 4

The Age

Liam Mannix

There’s a new app to spot sports concussions. Does it work?

What if we could diagnose concussion with something we all carry: a smartphone? “This is the holy grail of concussion diagnosis,” the Australian...

08.07.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Liam Mannix

The weapons used as fighting between Israel and Iran rages

Everything from cutting-edge aircraft to old weaponry is being deployed as the two nations clash.

18.06.2025 10

WA Today

Liam Mannix

The weapons used as fighting between Israel and Iran rages

Everything from cutting-edge aircraft to old weaponry is being deployed as the two nations clash.

18.06.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Liam Mannix

The weapons used as fighting between Israel and Iran rages

Everything from cutting-edge aircraft to old weaponry is being deployed as the two nations clash.

18.06.2025 10

The Age

Liam Mannix

The weapons used as fighting between Israel and Iran rages

Everything from cutting-edge aircraft to old weaponry is being deployed as the two nations clash.

18.06.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Liam Mannix

What the evidence says about sending your kids to single-sex v co-ed schools

This debate is as old as schooling itself: should boys and girls really be going to different schools?

27.05.2025 8

WA Today

Liam Mannix

What the evidence says about sending your kids to single-sex v co-ed schools

This debate is as old as schooling itself: should boys and girls really be going to different schools?

27.05.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Liam Mannix

What the evidence says about sending your kids to single-sex v co-ed schools

This debate is as old as schooling itself: should boys and girls really be going to different schools?

27.05.2025 6

The Age

Liam Mannix

What the evidence says about sending your kids to single-sex v co-ed schools

This debate is as old as schooling itself: should boys and girls really be going to different schools?

27.05.2025 9

Brisbane Times

Liam Mannix

The science that could explain the federal election result

Commentary tends to focus on the day-to-day campaign but political researchers say there are long-term structural forces at play in how we vote.

06.05.2025 6

WA Today

Liam Mannix

The science that could explain the federal election result

Commentary tends to focus on the day-to-day campaign but political researchers say there are long-term structural forces at play in how we vote.

06.05.2025 9

The Sydney Morning Herald

Liam Mannix

The science that could explain the federal election result

Commentary tends to focus on the day-to-day campaign but political researchers say there are long-term structural forces at play in how we vote.

06.05.2025 10

The Age

Liam Mannix

The science that could explain the federal election result

Commentary tends to focus on the day-to-day campaign but political researchers say there are long-term structural forces at play in how we vote.

06.05.2025 6

Brisbane Times

Liam Mannix

Hulking machine built to fight climate change is sitting silent

In a warehouse near the border of Victoria and NSW is a decommissioned machine that sums up how hard it is to find solutions to the climate crisis.

22.04.2025 10

WA Today

Liam Mannix

Hulking machine built to fight climate change is sitting silent

In a warehouse near the border of Victoria and NSW is a decommissioned machine that sums up how hard it is to find solutions to the climate crisis.

22.04.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Liam Mannix

Hulking machine built to fight climate change is sitting silent

In a warehouse near the border of Victoria and NSW is a decommissioned machine that sums up how hard it is to find solutions to the climate crisis.

22.04.2025 7

The Age

Liam Mannix

Hulking machine built to fight climate change is sitting silent

In a warehouse near the border of Victoria and NSW is a decommissioned machine that sums up how hard it is to find solutions to the climate crisis.

22.04.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Liam Mannix

Who really ‘invented Wi-Fi’, and the problem of Australian science innovation

The story of how CSIRO came to lay claim to inventing Wi-Fi deserves scrutiny as the Trump administration threatens to withdraw scientific funding,

25.03.2025 9

WA Today

Liam Mannix

Who really ‘invented Wi-Fi’, and the problem of Australian science innovation

The story of how CSIRO came to lay claim to inventing Wi-Fi deserves scrutiny as the Trump administration threatens to withdraw scientific funding,

25.03.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Liam Mannix

Who really ‘invented Wi-Fi’, and the problem of Australian science innovation

The story of how CSIRO came to lay claim to inventing Wi-Fi deserves scrutiny as the Trump administration threatens to withdraw scientific funding,

25.03.2025 20

The Age

Liam Mannix

Who really ‘invented Wi-Fi’, and the problem of Australian science innovation

The story of how CSIRO came to lay claim to inventing Wi-Fi deserves scrutiny as the Trump administration threatens to withdraw scientific funding,

25.03.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Liam Mannix

Feeling exhausted, cynical, inefficient? It could be ‘burnout’ ... if it actually exists

Burnout has emerged as the modern condition, but scientists are deeply divided. Where some see a crisis, others see “a fashionable diagnosis” or...

25.02.2025 10

WA Today

Liam Mannix

Feeling exhausted, cynical, inefficient? It could be ‘burnout’ ... if it actually exists

Burnout has emerged as the modern condition, but scientists are deeply divided. Where some see a crisis, others see “a fashionable diagnosis” or...

25.02.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Liam Mannix