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Berlin attack: security intelligence has limits in preventing truck-borne terror

  • Written by: John Blaxland, Professor, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University
imageToday’s violent extremists can draw inspiration from material online and through media coverage of sensational acts of violence.Reuters/Fabrizio Bensch

The Christmas market truck assault in Berlin, which has left 12 dead and dozens injured, is a disturbing echo of the truck-borne attack on Bastille Day celebrants on the Nice promenade in...

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The Conversation style guide

  • Written by: Charis Palmer, Deputy Editor, The Conversation

This style guide, composed by a range of Conversation editors in the years since we launched, is not meant to be comprehensive. But we hope it offers a basic guide to some of our style quirks. We will also update it from time to time.

We use The Economist style guide, single-spacing, British English for The Conversation Australia and UK and...

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No more blame game: why we need to rethink what's behind chronic disease

  • Written by: Garry Egger, Professor of Health and Human Sciences, Southern Cross University
imageWe propose a different way to look at the factors behind chronic disease, like obesity and diabetes.from www.shutterstock.com

The government and policy makers often tell the public lifestyle problems such as obesity, and the diabetes often associated with it, are their fault; just be a bit more virtuous and you won’t get a modern disease....

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The biggest mistake in the history of science

  • Written by: Darren Curnoe, Chief Investigator and Co-Leader of Education and Engagement Program ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, and Director, Palaeontology, Geobiology and Earth Archives Research Centre, UNSW Australia
imageThe human faces of Asia. First published in the first edition (1876–1899) of Nordisk familjebok.Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

Science is one of the most remarkable inventions of humankind. It has been a source of inspiration and understanding, lifted the veil of ignorance and superstition, been a catalyst for social change and economic growth,...

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