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When terror goes viral it's up to us to prevent chaos

  • Written by: Brian McNair, Professor of Journalism, Media and Communication, Queensland University of Technology
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The scent of chaos hangs heavy in the air. Donald Trump evokes it in Cleveland. Islamic State sows it in Nice, Brussels, Paris, Orlando. Britain is immersed in it after Brexit, while the EU struggles to prevent its onset amid mounting crises of migration and political legitimacy. Ukraine and Syria are being torn apart by it, and Turkey looks...

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Ten facts you need to know about the chicken and eggs on your table

  • Written by: Sonia Yun Liu, Lecturer in Poultry Nutrition, University of Sydney
imageThere are a lot of myths about the way chickens are farmed in Australia.Shutterstock

When I am asked by friends what I do for living, I tend to raise eyebrows because my job is somewhat odd to many city people. That’s because I’m a poultry nutritionist.

Typically, the conversation turns into a friendly debate on the myths around eating...

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Is the tropical Indian Ocean to blame for southern Australia's wet winter?

  • Written by: Catherine Ganter, Senior Climatologist, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
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If you live in southern Australia, you may have noticed it’s been a rather wet couple of months. What you might not realise is the role that the tropical Indian Ocean has played in helping to create this weather.

Since late May, the ocean has been in what we call a “negative Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) phase” – and it seems...

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More scrutiny needed on commissions paid to life insurance advisers

  • Written by: Gail Pearson, Professor, Business School, University of Sydney
imageChanges to life insurance commissions may reduce the incentive for advisers to churn customers through policies.www.shutterstock.com

The proposed changes to commissions for selling life insurance may just tip the system back in favour of the customer. For years paying life insurance advisers by commission was not seen as a conflict of interest,...

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  1. Business Briefing: what to do about low incomes
  2. What it means when kids walk on their toes
  3. Speaking with: Hannah Dahlen on pregnancy care
  4. Redetermining paradigmatic norms: is there any hope for academic writing?
  5. Evidence of NT detention centre abuse was there for all to see
  6. Backstories, Intimacies and the Ghostbusters Dilemma
  7. Is it back to the future for human origins science or just a case of science media misleading us again?
  8. Four Corners: why did the two previous investigations have no impact on changing this abuse?
  9. In a glass clearly: Singapore and Australia compared
  10. Morrison flags opposition to nominating Rudd for UN post
  11. Land carbon storage swelled in the Little Ice Age, which bodes ill for the future
  12. Can a corpulent Woolies discard its history and fight off Aldi?
  13. Violent video games and real violence: there's a link but it's not so simple
  14. Turkey coup: why have teachers and academics been targeted?
  15. Did sex drive mammal evolution? How one species can become two
  16. Reading French literature in a time of terror
  17. Four Corners: is using restraints akin to torture?
  18. Save or salvage: the real role administrators play in troubled businesses
  19. Will post-sentence detention of convicted terrorists make Australia any safer?
  20. The power of rewards and why we seek them out
  21. Australia is missing out on tax revenue from gas projects
  22. Is hip dysplasia in my newborn something to worry about?
  23. Who should be responsible for brain injuries in sport?
  24. Academics do want to engage with business, but need more support
  25. Suspended reality: the ins and outs of Rio's Olympic bubble
  26. Should artists pay their taxes in art?
  27. Has Netflix's campaign to block VPN resulted in slower subscriber growth?
  28. Ditching Logan's public-private regeneration sets Queensland back on social and affordable housing
  29. A new twist on an old fairytale as a daughter dances away from the patriarchy
  30. Should Russian athletes really be banned from competing in the Rio Olympics?
  31. The off-topic Conversation #103
  32. Health Check: what your pee and poo colour says about your health
  33. Welcome to Lab 2.0 where computers replace experimental science
  34. Global journalism needs global ethics
  35. Let's talk about the family home ... and its exemption from the pension means test
  36. South Australia's electricity price woes are more due to gas than wind
  37. 'You'll need my fingerprint': are police allowed to search your phone?
  38. Hubble explores the Final Frontier
  39. Wealth inequality shows superannuation changes are overdue
  40. Five ways the Coalition can get innovation back on track
  41. We can't see the war for the memorials: balancing education and commemoration
  42. Teaching phonics skills alongside reading raises literacy achievement among Indigenous children
  43. There's a world of difference between sex and sexism in advertising
  44. Teenage pain often dismissed as 'growing pains', but it can impact their lives
  45. Your postcode shouldn't determine your health – or whether you're admitted to hospital
  46. There's a time to put down the smartphone, seriously!
  47. Turnbull presses premiers for quick action on post-sentencing regime for terrorism prisoners
  48. Wong wins foreign affairs in Shorten's new frontbench line up
  49. Censored Thoughts on the Fate of Turkish Democracy
  50. What animal could a democracy be? Ape, fox, lion ... how about jellyfish?

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