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Fact or fiction – is sugar addictive?

  • Written by: Amy Reichelt, Lecturer, ARC DECRA, RMIT University
imageSugar activates the same brain system as drugs such as nicotine and cocaine, meaning consuming it is a behaviour we want to repeat. from www.shutterstock.com.au

Some of us can definitely say we have a sweet tooth. Whether it’s cakes, chocolates, cookies, lollies or soft drinks, our world is filled with intensely pleasurable sweet treats....

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New physics syllabus raises the bar, but how will schools clear it?

  • Written by: Simon Crook, PhD confirmed - Physics Education Research, University of Sydney
imageWill NSW physics students learn what these lines represent?starsandspirals/Flickr, CC BY-SA

The New South Wales Education Standards Authority (NESA) has just released the new Physics Stage 6 Syllabus along with those for the other sciences, maths, English and history.

The current physics syllabus, which dates back to 2000, has long been a point of...

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No mandatory novels or poetry – what you need to know about the new HSC English curriculum

  • Written by: Jackie Manuel, Associate Professor, University of Sydney
imageYear 12 students in NSW will study fewer texts in their English course.Dan Peled/AAP

The release of the new English syllabus for Years 11 and 12 students in New South Wales reveals a potentially less rigorous curriculum, which is likely to encourage students to study the easier course option now available.

The syllabus applies to all students in...

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Dutton blows Turnbull's credibility – for now and perhaps for later

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

Immigration Minister Peter Dutton’s explicit linking of the arrangements to send Australia’s offshore refugees to the US and to accept some from Costa Rica presents not just an immediate credibility problem for Malcolm Turnbull but, potentially, a more serious longer-term one.

It contradicts the prime minister’s flat – if...

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  8. Playing politics with renewables: how the right is losing its way
  9. Trump, déjà un mois, et ce n’est que le début…
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  19. Trainspotting on stage brings a disturbing reality vividly to life
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  21. There are some difficult questions to ask Netanyahu, but boycotting his visit won't answer them
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