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Young people don't expect to rely on the 'bank of mum and dad': study

  • Written by: Kathleen Riach, Associate Professor in Management, Monash University

Despite the stereotypes of young people as a generation focused on spending with no consequences, young people actually see their money decisions (as well as their mistakes) as their responsibility, our research shows. They aren’t reliant on the “bank of mum and dad”.

We spoke to 123 Australians aged between 16-26 across a variety...

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What went wrong with Pokémon Go? Three lessons from its plummeting player numbers

  • Written by: Mark Humphery-Jenner, Associate Professor of Finance, UNSW Australia
imagePokémon Go's developers may have moved the goalposts too many times.Wachiwit/Shutterstock.com

Pokémon Go is in rapid decline. Since launching in July and soaring in popularity, it had lost at least a third of its daily users by the middle of August. By mid-September, daily revenues had fallen from US$16m per day to US$2m (excluding...

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How we discovered the 'Higgs bison', hiding in plain sight in ancient cave art

  • Written by: Alan Cooper, Director, Australian Centre for Ancient DNA, University of Adelaide
imageCave artists knew about the elusive bison some 17,000 years ago.D. Viat/Tourismeoccitanie/Flickr.com, CC BY

More than 30,000 years ago, early cave artists in what is now southwestern France ventured deep underground into limestone caves, where they painted elaborate and detailed frescoes of the huge animals that dominated their lives. The accuracy...

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How women historians smashed the glass ceiling

  • Written by: Anne Rees, Kathleen Fitzpatrick Junior Research Fellow, University of Sydney
imageClare Wright: one of many women historians carving a role as a public intellectual.Dan Himbrechts/AAP

Earlier this year, I visited Federation University to partake in the ritual get-together of Australian historians: the Australian Historical Association annual conference. Each July, around 500 historians converge upon a nominated university, and...

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