Christopher Scanlon

Christopher Scanlon is a writer and commentator who has written features, essays, opinion and review articles on topics as diverse as Twilight to the bleak outlook for the world’s 6000 languages.

How should men act around children?

Even men who are employed to look after children have to monitor their own behaviour in ways that would probably never occur to their female colleagues. And that’s a good thing.

Why I don’t call my daughter ‘Princess’

The one thing all dads can do to boost their daughter’s ambition

We’re all The Walking Dead: how would other countries deal with the zombie apocalypse?

Banks and utilities are grooming us to be easy targets for cyber criminals

How my eating disorder changes the way I parent my children

The numbers don’t have it: why measuring won’t lead to better health

Weighing people may do more harm than good by giving an unreliable picture of the complex realities of health and weight.

We’ve turned Anzac Day into another consumerist binge-fest

In praise of partisanship: Triggs is on the side of human rights

Five hard question every dad should prepare themselves to answer

Online vs face-to-face learning: why can’t we have both?

Happiness™

Despite surface appearances, the ‘science of happiness’ hasn’t transported us to the sunny uplands of more enlightened workplaces. Too often its applications aren’t really about people’s wellbeing, but about making a better product.

I have daughters and I don’t want you to feel sorry for me

Wired for happiness? Evolutionary psychology falls short of science

Bogans and hipsters: we’re talking the living language of class

Australia Day: is nationalism really so bad?

Giving it away for free: sharing really is caring in the open education movement

This is what good parenting looks like

Why you’re always matched with douchebags online