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Why should we place our faith in science?

  • Written by: The Conversation
imageLots of scientists see things in different ways, but that doesn't undermine its authorityDan Tentler/Flickr, CC BY-NC

Most of us would like to think scientific debate does not operate like the comments section of online news articles. These are frequently characterised by inflexibility, truculence and expostulation. Scientists are generally a...

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Don't look away from Aylan Kurdi's image

  • Written by: The Conversation
imageAn image by Nilufer Demir dominates news coverage.Andy Rain/API

Last week, an image of a drowned refugee child became an icon before our eyes.

Of all the photographs of this crisis, why did this one finally allow us to truly see these human refugees in the deluge of images that surround us every day?

The photograph that made the front pages worldwide...

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The Short Conversations Never Had

  • Written by: The Conversation

One of my best friends often talks about the banter. That he and I have great banter. Completely true, of course. Across hours, across time zones, there is a high quality, exuberantly-talking-over-the-top-of-one-another back-and-forthing that started two years ago and hasn’t stopped.

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I recently finished Martin Short’s autobiography I...

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  1. Sperm whales learn local dialects – new study is yet more proof that animals have culture
  2. Asylum by numbers: this is not a quantifiable crisis
  3. Citizens of the World
  4. Polluted host cities are putting our champion athletes at risk
  5. How 3D objects and pictures of heritage can connect children worldwide
  6. Our peripheral vision is far more sophisticated than we thought
  7. Northern Ireland: how an over-reaction to one murder brought politics to a halt
  8. Bernie Fraser quits Climate Change Authority after difficulties with Hunt
  9. If poor people don't vote, will their children be poor as well?
  10. Aga saga reaches boiling point with US suitors in pursuit
  11. Abbott juggles the political pressures on Syrian refugees
  12. Blaming the Baby Boomers does today's young people no favours
  13. Got a great relationship? You may want to thank your prehistoric grandmother
  14. Data show drone attacks doomed to fail against ISIS in Syria
  15. Can the Paris climate talks prevent a planetary strike-out?
  16. How to dramatically reduce smoking without banning tobacco sales
  17. When parents with high math anxiety help with homework, children learn less
  18. Baby booms and busts: how population growth spurts affect the economy
  19. ISIS Propaganda and Gangsta Rap Videos
  20. Cameron's Syria drone strike 'revelation' is a diversion
  21. Four reasons Jeremy Corbyn’s innovative energy policy is no 80s throwback
  22. Ten years on, The Libertines release fresh anthems for a new doomed youth
  23. Hard Evidence: what does the future hold for the baby boomers?
  24. Why Germany is dumping nuclear power ... and Britain isn't
  25. The case for the music of Jean Sibelius
  26. The NBN: why it's slow, expensive and obsolete
  27. Property developers pay developer charges, that’s why they argue against them
  28. Shockingly, Alan Jones and I agree about proposed changes to Australian environmental laws
  29. What South Africa will be sacrificing by hosting the Commonwealth Games
  30. Giving faces to South Africa's missing children
  31. How South African universities are governed is the biggest challenge
  32. When should you take antibiotics?
  33. Australia can get the balance right on free trade and worker's rights
  34. FactCheck: Does Australia take more refugees per capita through the UNHCR than any other country?
  35. What is it about a republic that stumps our leaders?
  36. Revealed: a new way to test your 'biological' age
  37. Only a global response can solve Europe's refugee crisis
  38. What's really at stake if the China FTA falls through
  39. New prion disease raises questions about whether Alzheimer's and Parkinson's could be infectious
  40. Media and social responsibility at a time of radicalisation
  41. Forest loss has halved in the past 30 years, latest global update shows
  42. So much talk about 'the brain' in education is meaningless
  43. Australia needs more state fossil emblems, but let the public decide
  44. Britain after the Blitz: how to rebuild a city fit for a post-conflict population
  45. Why football embraces migrants
  46. How earning the right to an opinion on the Internet makes it that much more valuable
  47. How does the Lexus hoverboard actually work? A scientist explains
  48. Are mass protests in Guatemala and Honduras the start of a 'Central American Spring'?
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  50. Beyond Hungary: how the Czech Republic and Slovakia are responding to refugees

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The Real Cost of Launching a Food, Beverage or Supplement Brand in Australia

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