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Self control, the harms of pot, and fat genes: how the 44-year-old Dunedin study keeps on giving

  • Written by: Gita Mishra, Professor of Life Course Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, The University of Queensland
imageIQ decline is highest among those who started using during adolescence and among the most persistent (daily) users.FreeBirdPhotos/Shutterstock

After almost four-and-a half decades and from modest beginnings, the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study has evolved into one of the most significant long-term tracking studies (known as...

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Election day arrives and the stakes are high, not just for the US but the world

  • Written by: Kumuda Simpson, Lecturer in International Relations, La Trobe University

After a gruelling and often highly antagonist election, Americans will vote today for the next US President. There are several key policy areas that will require leadership that is thoughtful, creative and aimed at uniting a divided country. But it is not just domestic policy that will be shaped by the next president.

Whether it is Hillary Clinton...

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Timeline: Americans, the economy and elections

  • Written by: Wesley Widmaier, Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Griffith University

Looking back on the US presidential campaign, it has sounded at times as if Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump supporters inhabit two different economies.

Clinton supporters see the economy as a success:

From the depths of the global financial crisis in 2008, the Obama administration averted another Great Depression. The government worked with the...

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Business Briefing: what Australia can learn from a Polish economist

  • Written by: Jenni Henderson, Editor, Business and Economy, The Conversation

Andrzej Rzonca, a Professor of Economics at the Warsaw School of Economics and member of the Monetary Policy Committee at Poland’s central bank, is visiting Australia at the moment. He’s here to learn more about our monetary policy woes but to share his views on Brexit and the ever growing tension between the United Kingdom and other...

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  2. Radical overhaul needed to halt Earth’s sixth great extinction event
  3. The lessons we need to learn to deal with the 'creeping disaster' of drought
  4. Scientists ponder the evolutionary urge to create - but where are the women?
  5. Why we're more likely to date someone who has an ex
  6. Tougher action needed in the fight against scientific fraud
  7. Advertising is driving social media-fuelled fake news and it is here to stay
  8. Senate report calls for disallowance of Brandis's direction to Solicitor-General
  9. Inquiry opens way for changing Section 18C and the Human Rights Commission too
  10. Politics podcast: Julian Leeser on section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
  11. Equity crowdfunding requires a rethink on company structure
  12. Do we care about old people behind bars, and should we?
  13. With its corruption crackdown, China is also stamping out innovation
  14. The plebiscite is dead, but the quest for marriage equality lives on
  15. Fifty standout articles in The Conversation's 2016 Yearbook
  16. Australian law needs a refresher on the science of HIV transmission
  17. Kids who watch porn won't necessarily turn into sex offenders
  18. Explainer: why an Australian trade deal with the UK could take a decade
  19. Growing inequality in the US is bad news for climate change
  20. Planning for a rainy day: there's still lots to learn about Australia's flood patterns
  21. Natural disasters are affecting some of Australia's most disadvantaged communities
  22. Despite business' best efforts whistleblowers still lack protection under Australian law: new research
  23. What’s gender solidarity got to do with it? Woman shaming and Hillary Clinton
  24. Can private security companies improve responses to victims of family violence?
  25. Should family members of those with mental illness have access to their health information?
  26. Expansion is no longer the answer to improving the Australian education system
  27. Senate kills plebiscite, leaving same-sex marriage on indefinite hold
  28. Under President Trump the misinformed citizen will reign supreme
  29. Intelligence agencies to be scrutinised
  30. How Jakarta's first Chinese Indonesian governor became an easy target for radical Islamic groups
  31. Hanson backs sending her senator to the High Court
  32. Community organisations lack the funding and data to measure their impact
  33. US Election Day predictions: President, Governors, Senate and House of Representatives
  34. Human Rights Commission takes on Turnbull
  35. Hope and aspiration at the National Architecture Awards
  36. European leaders taking cues from Australia on asylum seeker policies
  37. Health Check: why do we get a stitch and how can we stop it?
  38. Explainer: what are antibodies and why are viruses like dengue worse the second time?
  39. For single parents, it pays to work
  40. 2015's record-breaking temperatures will be normal by 2030 - it's time to adapt
  41. The evidence of early human life in Australia's arid interior
  42. Obama, Trump, Clinton and the affordances of distance
  43. The off-topic Conversation #111
  44. Review: The naked nude from the Tate
  45. QUT discrimination case exposes Human Rights Commission failings
  46. Corruption looks different in China
  47. Fogies, insiders and press release summarisers: art criticism in Australia
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