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How we edit science part 5: so what is science?

  • Written by: Tim Dean, Editor, The Conversation
imageThe best scientists, such as Marie and Pierre Curie, are committed to the experimental method.Wikimedia

We take science seriously at The Conversation and we work hard at reporting it accurately. This series of five posts is adapted from an internal presentation on how to understand and edit science by Australian Science & Technology Editor, Tim...

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Grattan on Friday: Barnaby Joyce is telling the government to listen to politics in the pub

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

The impatience of Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce with some among the Liberals is palpable.

The Nationals leader just wishes they’d SHUT UP about 18C and same-sex marriage. In his local pub people are not talking about these issues. Joyce wants the government to stick to basics, and this week he has made the point loudly, in the party...

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The metapolitical long game of the European New Right

  • Written by: Matthew Sharpe, Associate Professor in Philosophy, Deakin University
imageCover of Libre Magzine of GRECE the founding European New Right organisation

In 2007, Canadian political theorist Tamir Bar-On wrote a book with a provocative title: Where have all the fascists gone? In 2017, Bar-On’s question may seem to many readers no longer that perplexing.

Beginning with the GFC, the last decade has seen the most...

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Let me entertain you – that's how to get a science message across

  • Written by: Jamie Freestone, PhD student in literature, The University of Queensland
imageRobotics as entertainment can help people engage with the real scienceQueensland Museum/World Science Festival Brisbane

Communicating science to the public can be hard. Climate change is the most notorious example, but the public debates around vaccinations and evolution have also exposed a lack of understanding of how the public engages with...

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  1. Australia's copyright reform could bring millions of books and other reads to the blind
  2. National Science Statement does little to bring industry and researchers together
  3. Research suggests motherhood has changed my brain.
  4. How 19th century fairy tales expressed anxieties about ecological devastation
  5. FactCheck Q A: Has confidence in the media in Australia dropped lower than in the United States?
  6. Despite escalating prescriptions, nerve pain drug offers no relief for sciatica
  7. Politics podcast: Michaelia Cash on union misconduct
  8. Terror in London: Western cities will always be vulnerable to these attacks
  9. Explainer: the financialisation of housing and what can be done about it
  10. NDIS housing rules for people with a disability could be life-changing
  11. Flying into uncertainty: Western Sydney's 'aerotropolis' poses more questions than answers
  12. Here's how much it would cost the government to pay everyone who takes care of family with mental illness
  13. It's harder for governments to tax their way out of rising inequality
  14. 'Empowerment' feminism is not working – we need a far more radical approach to gender equality
  15. Did Indigenous warriors influence the development of Australian rules football?
  16. Snowy hydro scheme will be left high and dry unless we look after the mountains
  17. How we edit science part 4: how to talk about risk, and words and images not to use
  18. The US just made flying harder for millions. Tips for dealing with the laptop ban
  19. National Science Statement a positive gesture but lacks policy solutions: experts
  20. Australia finally has crowd-sourced equity funding, but there's more to do
  21. Western Australia's welcome engagement in Asia has been a long time coming
  22. Swisse cheese: there are too many holes in complementary medicine regulations already
  23. Film review: A Plastic Ocean shows us a world awash with rubbish
  24. Commercialise my footy: how the AFL's grip on the game shrinks the fans' role
  25. You can't rely on fish oil supplements in pregnancy to make your children smarter
  26. Proposed changes may confuse rather than clarify the meaning of Section 18C
  27. The latest ideas to use super to buy homes are still bad ideas
  28. Trump's credibility takes a hit as FBI finds no evidence of Obama 'wiretap'
  29. How to reduce dependency on drugs like Valium with alternative therapies
  30. How electric cars can help save the grid
  31. How we edit science part 3: impact, curiosity and red flags
  32. In a miserable year, the Adelaide Festival brought us joy
  33. Conservatives have captured Turnbull for culture war crusade
  34. Coalition rebounds in Newspoll following Snowy announcement, but Essential moves to Labor
  35. Section 18C change appears doomed in Senate
  36. Putting a dollar value on how much employees are willing to put their own interests first
  37. How healthy soils make for a healthy life
  38. After the Catalyst arts funding mess, many questions remain
  39. To be ill is human: why normalising illness would make it easier to cope with
  40. Homophobia is harmful to workers and businesses
  41. The government's multicultural statement is bereft of new ideas or policies – why?
  42. Interculturalism: how diverse societies can do better than passive tolerance
  43. How to stop the thieves when all we want to capture is wildlife in action
  44. Apocalypse now: wifi and radiation sickness sweeping the world
  45. We still don't know how 'America First' will play out in Asia
  46. How we edit science part 2: significance testing, p-hacking and peer review
  47. After the robo-debt debacle, here's how Centrelink can win back Australians' trust
  48. Infographic: the truth behind Centrelink's waiting times
  49. Higher child support doesn't lead to welfare dependency for single mums
  50. When politicians listen to scientists, we all benefit

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