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The off-topic Conversation #104

  • Written by: Cory Zanoni, Community Manager, The Conversation

Welcome to The Conversation’s off-topic space. We’ve set this up as the place where you can discuss anything that isn’t related to a specific article. Please feel free to use this space to get to know each other and talk about news elsewhere and whatever else strikes your fancy.

This is also an opportunity to discuss broader...

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Windows 10 one year on: it's evolving but privacy still a concern

  • Written by: Vidyasagar Potdar, Senior Research Fellow, School of Information Systems, Curtin University
imageWindows 10 was designed with more than the desktop in mind.Maurizio Pesce/Flickr, CC BY

This week marks one year since the launch of what is arguably Microsoft’s most ambitious – and possibly most controversial – operating system: Windows 10.

Windows 10 represents a fundamentally different approach compared to the earlier versions...

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Lichens may be a symbiosis of three organisms; a new Order of fungus named

  • Written by: Susan Lawler, Senior Lecturer, Department of Ecology, Environment and Evolution, La Trobe University
imageLichen is made up of two types of fungus and an algae, that's one more species than previously thought.wikimedia

There is big news in the world of lichens. These slow growing organisms have long been known to be a collaboration between a fungus and a photosynthetic algae or cyanobacteria. A recent publication in Science may have changed all that.

R...

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Janis Joplin and Sharon Jones add a feminist beat to the Melbourne Film Festival

  • Written by: Andrea Jean Baker, Senior Lecturer in Journalism, Monash University
imageJanis Joplin in a new documentary, Janis: Little Girl Blue (2015). Disarming Films

Two of the twelve music documentaries featured in the Melbourne International Film Festival’s Backbeat program this year are about iconic female blues singers: Janis Joplin and Sharon Jones.

Janis: Little Girl Blue (2015) is a posthumous look at arguably, the...

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