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Would Marilyn Monroe's career (and life) have been different if she had acted on stage?

  • Written by Margaret Hickey, Lecturer in Academic Communication, La Trobe University
imageMonroe never performed in a formal theatre production, despite many key people in her life encouraging her to do so.Siddhesh Mangela/Flickr

On their first evening together, four years before they married, Arthur Miller encouraged Marilyn Monroe to pursue a career on the stage. It was something she never forgot.

In all that has been written about...

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Australian climate politics in 2017: a guide for the perplexed

  • Written by Marc Hudson, PhD Candidate, Sustainable Consumption Institute, University of Manchester
imageThe climate debate can give you a headache at the best of times. Confused person image from www.shutterstock.com

If you thought the climate debate has been ugly, you haven’t seen anything yet. In 2017 Australia will review its climate policies, and the process is not off to a good start.

To recap: with the release of the climate...

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Health Check: does my brain really freeze when I eat ice cream?

  • Written by Yossi Rathner, Lecturer in Human Physiology, Swinburne University of Technology
imageLittle does this woman know what happens to her brain when she licks the ice cream.from www.shutterstock.com

It’s a long, hot summer’s day and you’re looking forward to an ice cream. But within seconds of your first bite, you feel a headache coming on: a brain freeze. What’s going on?

Your brain isn’t literally...

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Look up! Your guide to some of the best meteor showers for 2017

  • Written by Jonti Horner, Vice Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow, University of Southern Queensland
imagePatience can be rewarded as with this composite of the 2016 Geminids meteor shower, seen over Mt Teide volcano on the Canary Islands, off SpainFlickr/StarryEarth, CC BY-NC

After a disappointing 2016, when most of the annual major meteor showers were washed out by moonlight, 2017 looks far more promising.

Of the big three, the Quadrantids in January...

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  2. Cabinet papers 1992-93: the rise and fall of enterprise bargaining agreements
  3. Cabinet papers 1992-93: Keating government fights for Indigenous rights on multiple fronts
  4. Cabinet papers 1992-93: the balance of head and heart
  5. Cabinet papers 1992-93: Australia reluctant while world moves towards first climate treaty
  6. The 1992-93 cabinet papers reveal the chaos behind the government's economic statement
  7. Cabinet papers 1992-93: Australia moves to make Her Majesty obsolete
  8. How changes noted in the 1992-93 cabinet papers affect our super today
  9. Telling the tale of 2016: On choosing how to remember the year
  10. Philanthropy's tech billionaire reboot could be good for policymaking
  11. Go native: why we need 'wildlife allotments' to bring species back to the ‘burbs
  12. Wait a moment: 2016 goes a little longer thanks to a leap second
  13. A behaviourist's guide to New Year's resolutions
  14. The shelf-life of slang – what will happen to those 'democracy sausages'?
  15. Four education claims of 2016 – reviewed
  16. 2016: The Year in Film
  17. A rare American rebuke for Israel
  18. Surviving 2017 – a user's guide
  19. The Samstags: the untold story of a couple that changed Australian art
  20. Watered down: what happened to Australia's river swimming tradition?
  21. History suggests Australia could be left behind by the next industrial revolution
  22. Why do our friends want us to drink and dislike it when we don't?
  23. Dingoes do bark: why most dingo facts you think you know are wrong
  24. VR cinema is here – and audiences are in the drivers' seat
  25. The best (and worst) ways to beat mosquito bites
  26. 2016: the year in space and astronomy
  27. How crowdfunding can connect people to their heritage and community
  28. 2016, the year that was: Education
  29. Think again before you post online those pics of your kids
  30. 2016, the year that was: Health + Medicine
  31. Universal basic income: the dangerous idea of 2016
  32. In a world of 24-7 entertainment, art, sport and politics are the poorer
  33. 2016, the year that was: Environment + Energy
  34. Year in Review: FactCheck and the weasel-words, cherry-picking and overstatements of 2016
  35. The year of the #techfail: All of tech gets a prize as reality bites
  36. 2016, the year that was: Arts and Culture
  37. Got a drone for Christmas? Know the law before taking to the skies
  38. 2016, the year that was: Politics and Society
  39. 2016, the year that was: Science + Technology
  40. Health Check: why swimming in the sea is good for you
  41. Summer reading guide from The Conversation's business economics writers
  42. A Very Aussie Christmas?
  43. What role for the states on climate and energy policy? NSW enters the fray
  44. 8 space reasons to look up in 2017
  45. Where to start reading philosophy?
  46. The off-topic Conversation #114
  47. Vital Signs: economic game changers to watch for in 2017
  48. Lessons in trust from America's experience with electronic voting
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