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Science is best when the data is an open book

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor
imageData needs to be an open book if science is to be made more reliable.Quinn Dombrowski/Flickr, CC BY-SA

It was 1986, and the American space agency, NASA, was reeling from the loss of seven lives. The space shuttle Challenger had broken apart about one minute after its launch.

A Congressional commission was formed to report on the tragedy. The...

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Grattan on Friday: The contrasting tales of Joe Hockey and Julie Bishop.

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor
imageJulie Bishop has shown resilience over the years, while Joe Hockey bows out. Mick Tsikas/AAP

This week Joe Hockey took his leave of parliament, after a career marked by unrealised promise and ultimate failure and disappointment. Soon, as ambassador to Washington, he will be working for Julie Bishop, the foreign minister who rose as a star in the...

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Why HuffPo and other 'new' media journalists are choosing unions

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor
imageNot an 'assembly line'?Brendan McDermid/Reuters

Newsroom unions are back. In newly found solidarity, journalists in American digital newsrooms are getting organised. As “new” digital news outlets are turning “old" - or rather maturing and delivering profits, it’s not surprising journalists are demanding better pay and...

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  2. It's a battle of the hemispheres in the Rugby World Cup
  3. Qiu Xiaolong's Detective Chen novels give clues to unravel the mysteries of China
  4. From farm to pharmacy: regulating medicinal cannabis in Australia
  5. Confused about your private health insurance coverage? You're not alone
  6. Watch out, Australia: a red-hot summer means blue-green algae
  7. The Experiment is a musical monodrama to love, hate, or both
  8. Tax reform aside, there's no real case to kill off dividend imputation
  9. Why the 'cashless welfare card' trial will leave us none the wiser
  10. How a small office in Jamaica might be our best hope for regulating deep sea mining
  11. Star Wars: The Force Awakens – a sound fetishist's guide to the trailer and beyond
  12. Ipsos gives Turnbull a massive approval rating
  13. The universe really is weird: a landmark quantum experiment has finally proved it so
  14. More technology doesn’t mean less inequality
  15. “Humanism”, an idol of the marketplace?
  16. Farewell to Lomborg – what did the episode teach us?
  17. Better care and communication can cut stillbirth rates and avoid unnecessary trauma
  18. Seven myths about dyslexia put to rest
  19. Family tax benefit savings trimmed, but families with teenagers hit hardest
  20. Today's smart machines owe much to Australia's first computer
  21. A dissenting economist on GST: we should charge more on beer and smokes
  22. Jules Wright, courageous Australian theatre director, died earlier this year – did you know?
  23. Here's why Australians are missing out on the HIV prevention pill
  24. Huge fires are burning northern Australia every year: it's time to get them under control
  25. The long-term future of Australian coal is drying up
  26. The Intern and Rethinking Intimate Friendships
  27. As companies continue to steal private data, technical solutions may be the answer
  28. Turnbull tests the water on same-sex marriage
  29. Credit card surcharging: what is it and how is it changing?
  30. Politics podcast: Sarah Hanson-Young on the plight of 'Abyan'
  31. Serial commenting, serial killing: some notes on Web 2.0 and Kevin Williamson’s The Following
  32. Japan's whaling gambit shows it's time to strengthen the rule of science in law
  33. Medications pregnant women should take, avoid, and think about
  34. The Conversation heads to the Paris climate talks
  35. The security benefits of warrantless surveillance are as clear as mud
  36. Hockey calls for swingeing economic reform in farewell speech
  37. Spotless leopards? Decoding hype on e-cigarettes
  38. PM's Prize for Science for revealing nature's solar power
  39. Wealth bubble: PM's Prize for Innovation goes to Aussie invention worth billions
  40. Spoiler alert: old-man-power trumps a successful young woman in The Intern
  41. The 'fatal five' causes of road trauma: who’s in control?
  42. Why Labor should come to the party on the competition review
  43. Why are Australian livestock still turning up in places where they are treated cruelly?
  44. Children in care are falling behind in literacy and numeracy – but the problem is far bigger than that
  45. Imported factoids should have no place in Australia's gun control debates
  46. Banning under twos from screens has little basis in evidence
  47. Hop aboard Patti Smith's M Train – a memoir on the right side of the tracks
  48. As Treasurer, Hockey proved to be an ordinary Joe
  49. It's Back to the Future Day today – so what are the next future predictions?
  50. The Turnbull government gets practiced at pivots

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