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Why suburban tensions and inequality will drive infrastructure innovation

  • Written by Pierre Filion, Professor, School of Planning, University of Waterloo
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This is the fifth article in our series Making Cities Work. It considers the problems of providing critical infrastructure and how we might produce the innovations and reforms needed to meet 21st-century needs and challenges.

The global trend towards suburbanisation and suburbanisms (meaning suburban ways of life) has an important infrastructure...

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'Record seizure' headlines mark another false step in misguided war on drugs

  • Written by James Martin, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Macquarie University
imageIllicit drugs are priced differently depending upon which stage of the supply chain they are located.AAP/Alex Murray

The announcement this week of the largest seizure of methamphetamine in Australian history has been accompanied by a familiar chorus of uncritical and often sensationalised media reporting.

The “street value” of the 903...

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#ThanksforTyping: the women behind famous male writers

  • Written by Camilla Nelson, Associate Professor of Writing, University of Notre Dame Australia
imageVladimir and Vera Nabokov in 1969.Giuseppe Pino, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY

It started when an American academic noticed how frequently the acknowledgements sections of weighty academic tomes featured a male author thanking his nameless wife for typing.

The academic, Bruce Holsigner, began sharing the screenshots on Twitter under the hashtag #Thanksfor...

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Explainer: what is the blood-brain barrier and how can we overcome it?

  • Written by Jürgen Götz, Director, Clem Jones Centre for Ageing Dementia Research, The University of Queensland
imageBrains are precious. We can't just let any old thing in.Neil Conway/Flickr, CC BY-SA

The brain is precious, and evolution has gone to great lengths to protect it from damage. The most obvious is our 7mm thick skull, but the brain is also surrounded by protective fluid (cerebrospinal – of the brain and spine) and a protective membrane called...

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  1. Can a four-year-old be sexist?
  2. Love connection: breakthrough fights crown-of-thorns starfish with pheromones
  3. Young people's voices are all but invisible in the Don Dale royal commission's interim report
  4. Terrorist or hipster – what does a beard mean?
  5. Stumbling into the future: living with the legacy of the great infrastructure sell-off
  6. Diversity and inclusion are the heroes in Overwatch, a runaway commercial gaming success
  7. Beyond the gloomy headlines, this global index suggests manufacturing is in good shape
  8. People who shoot risk unhealthy levels of lead exposure
  9. Liberal director Tony Nutt quits
  10. Climate-driven species on the move are changing (almost) everything
  11. Labor gains in Newspoll to move to 53-47 lead
  12. ATNIX: Debbie misses Twitter
  13. Squeezed by gravity: how tides affect the groundwater under our feet
  14. Explainer: why the High Court ruled Bob Day's election to the Senate invalid
  15. There are many ways to treat jellyfish stings – peeing on them isn't one
  16. Print your own masterpieces and digital pens -- the brave new world of the museum
  17. Tropical Cyclone Debbie has blown a hole in the winter vegetable supply
  18. How one family used pokies and politics to extract a fortune from Tasmanians
  19. How do we restore the public's faith in transport planning?
  20. Paradoxes of probability and other statistical strangeness
  21. Whole body vibration: a genuine therapy or just another 'weight loss' fad?
  22. Gogglebox and what it tells us about English in Australia
  23. How to split the good from the bad in online reviews and ratings
  24. Turnbull delays London appointment
  25. If you haven't got the numbers, Scott, could you please just get them?
  26. Outreach - why reach out?
  27. 8 diet myths - busted!
  28. A Rock Roll Writers Festival brings a much-needed spark to Australia's literary scene
  29. Stargazing citizens and scientists share the hunger to find Planet 9
  30. Turkey on the verge of democide as referendum looms
  31. Governments are trapped in a vicious cycle of housing policies and prices
  32. Weighing the risks and benefits of CT scans in childhood
  33. Separation and single parenting: the tribulations of Henry Lawson's wife
  34. Ice age art and 'jewellery' found in an Indonesian cave reveal an ancient symbolic culture
  35. Why do schools want all students to look the same?
  36. Health-care spending has only a modest effect on lifespan and premature death
  37. Alt-unionism: why businesses may be better with the devil they know
  38. Banksy's Bethlehem hotel is an example of how tourism can be political
  39. How do we stop volunteer emergency service workers quitting?
  40. Learning to live with a nuclear North Korea?
  41. Three charts on: the incredible shrinking renewable energy job market
  42. The government's company tax cut win a triumph of politics over economics
  43. From Smart Cities 1.0 to 2.0: it's not (only) about the tech
  44. Health Check: what are 'coffee naps' and can they help you power through the day?
  45. Tackling the kraken: unique dolphin strategy delivers dangerous octopus for dinner
  46. The tragedy of Mosul: battle against Islamic State is leading to all-too-familiar consequences
  47. The off-topic Conversation #119
  48. Evolving Agile practices to support a distributed team
  49. What economics has to say about housing bubbles
  50. What's critical about critical infrastructure?

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