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You know nothing about rehoming a pet, Jon Snow

  • Written by: Bronwyn Orr, Veterinarian and PhD scholar, University of Sydney
You know nothing about rehoming a pet, Jon SnowGive the Good Boy a pat.HBO/IMDB

Warning - minor Game of Thrones spoilers ahead

In the latest episode of Game of Thrones we watched Jon Snow abandon his direwolf, Ghost, without so much as a hug goodbye. Many were outraged, with some questioning the leadership abilities of a human so callous. (The directors said “a CGI issue” prevented...

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why do leaves fall off trees?

  • Written by: Matilda Brown, PhD, University of Tasmania
why do leaves fall off trees?The short answer is that leaves fall off trees when they aren’t doing their job any more. Emily Nunell/The Conversation CC-NY-BD, CC BY

Curious Kids is a series for children. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskids@theconversation.edu.au You might also like the podcast Imagine This, a co-production...

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Journalist pardons are welcome, but press freedom in Myanmar will require real reform

  • Written by: Kyle Springer, Senior Analyst at the Perth USAsia Centre, University of Western Australia

Myanmar’s president released more than 6,000 prisoners on Tuesday, including two Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists imprisoned for reporting on a military crackdown on the Rohingya Muslim minority in Rakhine state.

Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, who work for the news organisation Reuters, were arrested in 2017 and, after a corrupt trial engineered...

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helicopter parents could be raising anxious, narcissistic children

  • Written by: Marilyn Campbell, Professor Faculty of Education, School of Cultural and Professional Learning, Queensland University of Technology
helicopter parents could be raising anxious, narcissistic childrenChildren are living at home for longer, so parents have more time to be overly protective of them.from shutterstock.com

The Age newspaper recently highlighted the issue of so-called “helicopter parenting” at universities. The report talked of parents contacting lecturers to ask about their adult children’s grades, sitting in on...

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  1. NZ introduces groundbreaking zero carbon bill, including targets for agricultural methane
  2. Why suburban parks offer an antidote to helicopter parenting
  3. Fixing Australia’s extinction crisis means thinking bigger than individual species
  4. Foreign-born voters and their families helped elect Turnbull in 2016. Can they save ScoMo?
  5. Labor wants to pay childcare wages itself. A perfect storm makes it not such a bad idea
  6. We need to do more about cyberbullying against Indigenous Australians
  7. Why Australia needs to kill cats
  8. How Earth's continents became twisted and contorted over millions of years
  9. Australia’s ethnic face is changing, and so are our blood types
  10. Third debate contained some messages about and from the leaders
  11. Shorten and Morrison make their final cases in third leaders' debate: our experts respond
  12. Passenger planes need enough cabin crew to operate all the exits in an emergency
  13. How camp was the Met Gala? Not very
  14. Shorten turns Daily Telegraph sledge to advantage
  15. Indigenous rangers don’t receive the funding they deserve – here's why
  16. Confirmation from NSW Treasury. Labor's negative gearing policy would barely move house prices
  17. There's nothing unfair about dividend imputation -- it refunds tax that shouldn't have been paid
  18. how new technologies are changing police surveillance
  19. It's hard to find out who Labor's dividend imputation policy will hit, but it is possible, and it isn't the poor
  20. 3 Charts on the rise in cycling injuries and deaths in Australia
  21. If Labor wins the 2019 federal election, what role will unions play?
  22. Labor wants to restore penalty rates within 100 days. But what about the independent umpire?
  23. Suicide rates are rising with or without 13 Reasons Why. Let's use it as a chance to talk
  24. How highly sexualised imagery is shaping 'influence' on Instagram
  25. Are international students passing university courses at the same rate as domestic students?
  26. Can we bend it? The challenge for Samsung and others to make flexible technology
  27. Selling out the city to advertising? Nothing new to see here
  28. are water crystals bad for the environment?
  29. why do we get motion sickness and what's the best way to treat it?
  30. Why Adani's finch plan was rejected, and what comes next
  31. 5 tips on how to be a good mentor to someone twice your age
  32. how a royal commission will investigate Christchurch shootings
  33. Look at me! Look at me! How image-conscious but visionless leaders have made for a dreary campaign
  34. the big tech business model
  35. why don't horses sit or lie down even while sleeping?
  36. how to achieve the Uluru statement and a First Nations voice
  37. Around 50% of homes in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane have the oldest NBN technology
  38. For Aboriginal artists, personal stories matter
  39. The uranium mine in the heart of Kakadu needs a better clean up plan
  40. is it true that dogs at the pound get killed if nobody adopts them?
  41. How the major parties stack up on industrial relations policy
  42. What are the major parties promising on health this election?
  43. Bill Shorten's promise of a living wage is both realistic and necessary. But it's not enough.
  44. On rate-cut Tuesday, here are four reasons why the Reserve Bank shouldn't jump
  45. 'Revolutionary change' needed to stop unprecedented global extinction crisis
  46. El Niño has rapidly become stronger and stranger, according to coral records
  47. Move away from a car-dominated city looks radical but it's a sensible plan for a liveable future
  48. Inside the story: The Merger
  49. rediscovering the genesis of a film classic
  50. Richard Eccleston on the electoral mood in Tasmania

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