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Don't count on freezing ovarian tissue to delay menopause or stop your biological clock

  • Written by: Karin Hammarberg, Senior Research Fellow, Global and Women's Health, School of Public Health & Preventive Medicine, Monash University
Don't count on freezing ovarian tissue to delay menopause or stop your biological clockThe procedure is still experimental and there's so much we don't know about it.Bewakoof.com Official

A company in the United Kingdom is offering women a procedure it says can delay menopause up to 20 years and allow women to delay having babies.

But don’t get too excited. The costs and risks are likely to outweigh the potential benefits, plus...

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Pacific Undertow is a playful exercise in artistic rule-breaking

  • Written by: Joanna Mendelssohn, Honorary Principal Fellow, University of Melbourne. Editor in Chief, Design and Art of Australia Online, University of Melbourne
Pacific Undertow is a playful exercise in artistic rule-breakingShaun Gladwell, Approach to Mundi Mundi (production image), 2007, 2-channel digital video, colour, silent, 3:50 minutes (Dawn), 4:40 minutes (Day).John Kaldor Family Collection, image courtesy the artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne © the artist

Review: Shaun Gladwell: Pacific Undertow, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

In her...

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don't just blame the internet, it's to do with a dwindling middle class

  • Written by: Jason Pallant, Lecturer of Marketing, Swinburne University of Technology
don't just blame the internet, it's to do with a dwindling middle classBarneys, Madison Avenue, New York. Department stores that were once the pinnacle of middle-class aspiration are losing out to discount shops and luxury retailers.www.shutterstock.com

Barneys, the iconic chain of upscale New York department stores established in 1923, has just filed for bankruptcy protection. Another of America’s great...

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corner store revival can rebuild neighbourhood ties

  • Written by: Louise Grimmer, Lecturer in Retail Marketing, Tasmanian School of Business and Economics, University of Tasmania
corner store revival can rebuild neighbourhood tiesWhen neighbourhoods lose their corner stores, they also lose a place where people meet and feel like part of their local community.Susan Fitzgerald/Flickr, CC BY-ND

Do you have a corner store? Once an icon of suburban Australia, many neighbourhood corner stores vanished in the face of unrelenting competition from large supermarkets, global...

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  1. Viruses aren't all nasty – some can actually protect our health
  2. Australian metadata laws put confidential interviews at risk, with no protections for research
  3. New survey reveals which religions New Zealanders trust most – and least – after Christchurch shootings
  4. 8chan's demise is a win against hate, but could drive extremists to the dark web
  5. The most influential American author of her generation, Toni Morrison's writing was radically ambiguous
  6. According to TV, heart attack victims are rich, white men who clutch their hearts and collapse. Here's why that's a worry
  7. Will the High Court ruling on public servant’s tweets have a 'powerful chill' on free speech?
  8. A new Australian film set in an immigration detention centre is a jarring mix of violence, satire and humanism
  9. Most migrants on bridging visas aren't 'scammers', they're well within their rights
  10. Meet the 'Hercules parrot' from prehistoric New Zealand – the biggest ever discovered
  11. Almonds don't lactate, but that's no reason to start calling almond milk juice
  12. Have a question about climate? The Conversation and Stuff can help with their New Zealand-based initiative
  13. What sort of housing do older Australians want and where do they want to live?
  14. The China-Trump trade conflict has spread to Australia. We're now at risk of global currency war
  15. will we be less healthy because of climate change?
  16. Want to beat climate change? Protect our natural forests
  17. India revokes Kashmir’s autonomy, risking yet another war with Pakistan
  18. How good was John Clarke? Some reflections on his poetics of tinkering
  19. Curious Kids: why is urine yellow?
  20. Gas prices are set to stay high. The government's moves, while welcome, won't achieve much
  21. ACCC seeks to clip wings of tech giants like Facebook and Google but international effort is required
  22. John Marsden says parents and schools are failing kids, but his book offers little evidence
  23. why is air colder the higher up you go?
  24. Enough inquiries that go nowhere – it's time for a royal commission into veteran suicide
  25. Why do I grunt when I bend over?
  26. AI is here to stay. Now we need to ensure that everyone benefits
  27. These 'job snob' claims don't match the evidence
  28. Will time tear us apart? Exploring the appeal of Joy Division 40 years on
  29. Australian media regulators face the challenge of dealing with global platforms Google and Facebook
  30. We can cut private health insurance costs by fixing how we pay for hip replacements and other implants
  31. Focus on managing social housing waiting lists is failing low-income households
  32. Why a code of conduct may not be enough to change the boys' club culture in the Liberal Party
  33. More than 1,700 activists have been killed this century defending the environment
  34. Australia should explore nuclear waste before we try domestic nuclear power
  35. footage reveals that fierce leopard seals work together when king penguin is on the menu
  36. Think your metadata is only visible to national security agencies? Think again
  37. Why drug cheats are still being caught seven years after the 2012 London Olympics
  38. Mums in prison or whose babies are in care need breastfeeding support too
  39. Why investigative reporting in the digital age is waving, not drowning
  40. Indigenous art centres that sustain remote communities are at risk. The VET sector can help
  41. Apartment life for families means living at close quarters, but often feeling isolated too
  42. The National Breastfeeding Strategy is a start, but if we really valued breast milk we'd put it in the GDP
  43. remembering and reflecting on Australia's biggest prison escape 75 years on
  44. Koala-detecting dogs sniff out flaws in Australia's threatened species protection
  45. Australia likely to tick off on US request to help protect shipping in Middle East
  46. Nuclear becomes latest round in energy wars
  47. Albanese says Voice must be in the Constitution
  48. Australia depends less on Chinese trade than some might think
  49. Beefing up security isn't the only way to make hospitals safer
  50. Want to avoid a botched beauty procedure? This is what you need to be wary of

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