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Why is Islam so different in different countries?

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor

The rise of Islamic State has led to much speculation about the group’s origins: how do we account for forces and events that paved the way for the emergence of the jihadist group?

Today, Aaron Hughes explains the amazing regional variation in Islamic practice to illustrate why Islamic State appeared where it did.


No religion is unified. How...

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Vital signs: the missing link between labour markets and growth

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor

Vital Signs is a weekly economic wrap from UNSW economics professor and Harvard PhD Richard Holden (@profholden). Vital Signs aims to contextualise weekly economic events and cut through the noise of the data impacting global economies.

This week: Minutes from the Reserve Bank of Australia, the last meeting of the US Federal Reserve; car sales in...

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Chemistry has a bright future for us and our economy

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor
imageChemistry is all around us.Shutterstock

Chemistry is the science of molecules: the basic building blocks of all known matter. In a way, this makes chemistry the science of everything.

Chemists have shown that all the substances around us – the Earth and indeed the universe as a whole – are composed of just 92 building blocks or elements...

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